Tremble
25.09–01.11 2026
Alberta Whittle, Felix Gmelin, Frida Orupabo

Vernissage: Friday, 25 September, 18.00–23.00
In conjunction with Malmö Gallery Weekend

‘The earth is trembling’, observed Martinique-born writer and thinker, Édouard Glissant. The exhibition takes off from here, presenting works by three artists, Alberta Whittle, Felix Gmelin, and Frida Orupabo. In this world of unrest and friction, it asks how resistance takes form, moves, and persists over time. Embracing a Glissantian approach it accepts the ongoing rumbling as a matter of fact, and presses on what it means to live, think, and act within it.

Frida Orupabo’s nine-channel video installation glares at the viewer in a constant loop. She reworks constructions of Black subjectivity through archival imagery, creating a universe of both discomfort and release. Alberta Whittle’s What Sound Does The Black Atlantic Make? (2019) unravels the colonial legacy of the North British Rubber Company, turning towards the ocean as a site of memory. At the heart of Felix Gmelin’s Farbtest, Die Rote Fahne II (2002) is the question: Can a political gesture be inherited? Gmelin uses reenactment to examine former political movements, particularly traces of 1960s radicalism.

Tremble tethers itself in anti-imperial thought, reaching for potentiality through artistic gesture.

Curator: Tawanda Appiah

Special thank you to The Modern Institute, Filmform and Galerie Nordenhake.

 

Image: Frida Orupabo, Untitled, film still, 2018. Courtesy of the artist and Galerie Nordenhake Stockholm/Berlin/Mexico City.