{"id":5899,"date":"2024-12-16T09:00:30","date_gmt":"2024-12-16T09:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.afmuseet.no\/en\/?post_type=exhibition&p=5899"},"modified":"2025-04-01T13:05:43","modified_gmt":"2025-04-01T13:05:43","slug":"frida-orupabo-on-lies-secrets-and-silence","status":"publish","type":"exhibition","link":"https:\/\/www.afmuseet.no\/en\/exhibitions\/frida-orupabo-on-lies-secrets-and-silence\/","title":{"rendered":"Frida Orupabo | On Lies, Secrets and Silence"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Frida Orupabo | On Lies, Secrets and Silence<\/h1>\n\n07. Feb. 2025 – 27. Apr. 2025<\/span>\n\n
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On Lies, Secrets and Silence\u00a0presents Frida Orupabo\u2019s distinctive vision in her most extensive exhibition to date. <\/p><\/div>\n\n\n

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Alongside works using a unique collage technique, On Lies, Secrets and Silence<\/em> includes large-scale images displayed as spatial installations and a video installation, suggesting a material and conceptual evolution of the artist\u2019s practice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Orupabo\u2019s incisive work unearths violences in historic photographic and popular archives as well as contemporary digital media. She draws from personal experiences that are deeply intertwined with shared, collective experiences, reimagining these difficult images into otherworldly collages, videos, and sculptures. This process is rooted in a photomontage tradition where she manipulates, cuts, arranges, inverts and loops images. Powerful as they are, these interventions create imaginative and poignant reworkings of motifs that seek to challenge colonial notions still embedded in social, economic and political structures, enabling a sensitive examination of subjects such as race, gender, sexuality, and familial bonds.
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The exhibition\u2019s starting point is our most private and intimate space\u2014the home. The complex relationships that are contained within the domestic sphere, central to our everyday lives and the creation of identity, are probed by Orupabo. Through subtle changes, familiar environments and relationships are transformed from safe and welcoming, to strange and uncomfortable. Several works are reminiscent of cutout dolls, built up layer by layer, and loosely pinned together, but rather than play, they are figures of resistance. Reconstructed bodies possess an agency of their own that embraces the multi-layered and malleable nature of the self.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I guess the gaze has a strong presence in all of my works, I\u2019m for the most part working with images where the subject gazes directly back at the spectator\/viewer. It\u2019s something about working with colonial archives which is so objectifying, so violent. The reversed gaze is important because to me it represents resistance and power. To look back is in a way to refuse objectification. It\u2019s a way of speaking without sound.<\/p>Frida orupabo in interview with karolina modig, bonniers konsthall<\/a><\/cite><\/blockquote><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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