Frida Orupabo explores historical representations of Black bodies through collage, reassembling female figures to reveal tensions tied to identity, memory, and the gaze. In On Lies, Secrets, and Silence, she draws us into the domestic sphere, a space of both intimacy and control. Drawing from colonial archives, vernacular photography, and online images, she creates constellations of gazes in which viewers find themselves both observing and being observed. She questions the power structures shaping visibility throughout history and composes an iconography in which her subjects reclaim political, aesthetic, and erotic subjectivity.

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Exhibition produced in partnership with VOX, centre de l’image contemporaine.
The exhibition is made possible thanks to the support of the Office for contemporary art Norway.
The original exhibition was commissioned by Bonniers Konsthall (Stockholm) and Astrup Fearnley Museet (Oslo), where it was previously on view.

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