April 10, 2019
2-TIMES • Art
Frida Orupabo
& Arthur Jafa,
‘Medicine for
a Nightmare’ @
Kunstnernes Hus
—
“You don't listen
to people dance, you
watch people dance,
that's undeniable
and that's visual
expressivity...”
‘Medicine for a
Nightmare’:
Is Norwegian–Nigerian
artist Frida Orupabo's
first institutional
exhibition in Norway,
for which she has also
invited American artist
and filmmaker Arthur
Jafa to show his 2016
video ‘Love Is the
Message, the Message
Is Death’.
The exhibition:
Presents nine wall-
mounted tablet/video
works of Orupabo's
ongoing artistic project
on Instagram, alongside
a series of large-scale
figurative collages
on paper, joined with
split pins in a way that
recalls paper dolls or
sculptural objects.
“@nemiepeba is a
dancer... a voluptuous
trail of black continuity.”
On view at:
Kunstnernes Hus
—
Wergelandsveien 17,
0167 Oslo, Norway.
Closes:
April 21, 2019.
Orupabo & Jafa @ Kunstnernes Hus
PHOTOGRAPHY /
© Frida Orapubo & Arthur Jafa
—
Individual views:
Courtesy of The Artist
&
Galerie Nordenhake
Photos: Carl Henrik Tillberg
—
Installation views:
Kunstnernes Hus (2019)
Photos: Vegard Kleven
—
Video/quoted excerpts:
Arthur Jafa in
conversation with
Anne Hilde Neset
CREDITS /
