Artist: Sandra Mujinga
Exhibition title: Hoarse Globules
Venue: UKS, Oslo, Norway
Date: June 1 – August 26, 2018
Photography: all images copyright and courtesy of the artist and UKS, Oslo
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Artists: Petter Ballo, Ragna Bley, Ronny Faber Dahl, Tora Dalseng, Anna Daniell, Ingrid Eggen, Marthe Ramm Fortun, Ingrid Furre, Pedro Gomez-Egaña, Ane Graff, Sverre Gullesen, Morten Norbye Halvorsen, Anders Holen, Ann Cathrin November Høibo, Linn Pedersen, Marte Johnslien, Stian Eide Kluge, Jon Eirik Kopperud, Daisuke Kosugi, Anne Guro Larsmon, Hanne Lippard, Inger Wold Lund, Carl Mannov, Sandra Mujinga, Magnus Pettersen, Eirik Senje, Vikram Uchida-Khanna, Anders Smebye, Camilla Steinum, Eirik Sæther, Gernot Wieland, Marianne Zamecznik, Carla Ählander, Snorre Ytterstad, Andreas Öhman
Exhibition title: The 9th Norwegian Sculpture Biennial (Life and Work)
Curated by: Steffen Håndlykken
Venue: The 9th Norwegian Sculpture Biennial, Oslo, Norway
Date: June 1 – September 17, 2017
Photography: all images copyright and courtesy of the artists and The 9th Norwegian Sculpture Biennial
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Artists: Aleksandra Domanović, Andreas Fischer, Pakui Hardware, Alexander Kluge, Daria Martin, Sandra Mujinga, Wyatt Niehaus, Margaret Raspé, Raphaela Vogel, Jan Vorisek
Exhibition title: APPARAT
Curated by: Christina Lehnert
Venue: Kunstverein Braunschweig, Braunschweig, Germany
Date: June 3 – August 13, 2017
Photography: Stefan Stark, images copyright and courtesy of the artists and Kunstverein Braunschweig
In Sandra Mujinga’s “ Every Shadow is the Shadow of Something ”, an avatar is shown being multiplied into a myriad versions that fade in and out of sight and appear to morph into each other and disseminate. The multiple bodies form a pulsing, but also fragile mass, that feels like it could break apart at any moment, but at the same time we are repeatedly confronted with the direct gaze of the avatar’s eyes, breaking with the objecthood of the infinitely multiplied body in flashes of lucid subjectivity. Meanwhile 4 video loops are showing different ways of being in transit, states of indeterminacy. Taking the airport as an image of the ultimate site of indeterminacy, where one at the same time can go anywhere, and also be practically imprisoned, the double exposure of entrapments into never-ending loops disguising as infinite possibilities. Coming from an overarching theme of shadows, as that which is neither light nor dark but the product of both, attaining a substance, however ephemeral, of its own, the body multiple, the poly-body, that both in the physical and digital world is multiplied, displaced, moved, and as an answer multiplies itself, moves itself, displaces itself. Like sitting in an airplane is both the ultimate freedom, and at the same time the least free one can be. On an airplane one is no-where, the body is suspended, not only between the sites of departure and arrival, but also suspended between the source of light and the surface of projection.
Sandra Mujinga, born in 1989, Goma DR Congo, is a Norwegian artist who, while having been mostly active in Malmö and Oslo, is currently based in Berlin. Recent exhibitions include: Lovely Hosts, Mavra in Berlin, Real Friends at Oslo Kunstforening and group shows ‘Missed Connections’ at Julia Stoschek Collection in Düsseldorf,Norwegian Sculpture Biennale, APPARAT – Technologies of Persuasion, Kunstverein Braunschweig and Subject, Malmö Konsthall
