Kra Kouassi trained in documentary filmmaking at the ateliers Varan with sound engineer and sound director Daniel Deshays and sound engineer Michel Creïs, who was part of the radio creation workshop, ACR at France Culture. She took part in a workshop with the theorist and playwright Jean-Pierre Sarrazac and has benefited from the support of filmmaker Claudio Pazienza.
In her practice, she is in search of intimate experiences of knowledge in situations of conflict. Repetition, immobility, presence, and the very misery of the ordinary are the material in which she supports this quest. She tries to make sense of the real by shaping it mainly from individual powerlessness and its effort to strive towards a collective being.
Her project Le Baobab des Grands Fonds aims to experience the life of Africa in the Guadeloupean and Caribbean imaginary, based on the exuberance of the discourse of a major Baobab tree roaming the agricultural hinterland of Guadeloupe. The speeches of the Baobab tree, the sound of the Creole language of Guadeloupe, the soul of bodies descended from freedmen and freedwomen, and the silence of an ineffable fortune, such are the four elements of the sound material that Kra Kouassi will explore during her residency at the Cité internationale des arts, in order to search for and experiment with appropriate staging and setting.