Frida Orupabo: Hands and slide (2021). 9 channel video installation, loop. The videos are exhibited with permission from Getty Images. Courtesy Frida Orupabo and Galerie Nordenhake Berlin | Stockholm | Mexico City. Photo: Susann Jamtøy
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Artist Frida Orupabo in conversation with Stefanie Hessler, former Director Kunsthall Trondheim
23 September 2021 Kunsthall Trondheim opened the exhibition "How did you feel when you come out of the wilderness" – Frida Orupabo’s first solo presentation in Norway.
Frida Orupabo’s work explores questions related to race, family and kin relations, gender, sexuality, violence and identity. In Orupabo’s art, questions are also being raised on visibility and the necessity of being seen as a political subject.
In her research process, Orupabo mines archives with a colonial history, revisiting images that were created through a racialized lens, as well as digital platforms such as Instagram and YouTube. From found digital and physical material, she creates collages, videos shown in exhibitions and distributed using the same online platforms from which some of the material is obtained.
The works in the exhibition are commissioned by Kunsthall Trondheim, with generous support from the Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma / The Finnish National Gallery, and Galerie Nordenhake Stockholm.
The exhibition is supported by The Fritt Ord Foundation, and the book Frida Orupabo, released in connection to the exhibition, is supported by Arts Council Norway.