Photo: André Percey Katombe (SonrisePicture) / TheOsloDesk
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Michelle A. Tisdel, founder of Lift Every Voice, Ka Man Mak, founder of the Oslo Desk, and André Katombe from the Oslo Desk in conversation with Carl Martin Faurby, Program Curator Kunsthall Trondheim
November 24, 2020, Kunsthall Trondheim opened the exhibition LIFT EVERY VOICE, in collaboration with The Oslo Desk collective, and the organization Lift Every voice. The exhibition showed posters and social documentation from the demonstration “We Can’t Breathe. Justice for George Floyd,” attended by more than 15.000 protesters on 5 June 2020 in Oslo. The exhibition discussed the protest posters as examples of free speech and narratives of experience. As the posters express outrage, vulnerability and solidarity, as well as concerns about racism, belonging and social justice. By exhibiting them, LIFT EVERY VOICE explores how the demonstrations in Oslo, Trondheim and several other Norwegian cities, constitute a new critical event for antiracism in Norway. The posters, photographs and video material highlight the public engagement, while the exhibition performs the preservation of community narratives.