25 June '25
ASSATA
Rostockgata 2-4, Oslo 0191
Rostockgata 2-4, Oslo 0191
Publication Launch: Voicing Out Silences with Presentation by Gladys Kalichini
OCA and ASSATA invite you to the launch of the Voicing Out Silences publication on 25 June, 17:00 at ASSATA. Artist Gladys Kalichini, participant of the You better say our names, Working towards pluricultural futures, whose work is presented in the VOS-publication by Professor Ruth Simbao, will have a presentation of her artistic practice.
The presentation will be followed by a Q&A and refreshments.
Gladys Kalichini is an art historian and contemporary visual artist. Her work centers around notions of erasure, memory, and representations and visibilities of women in colonial resistance histories. Her multi-media installations draw largely from research material and archival photographs of women in independence struggles. Kalichini’s work challenges dominant and nationalist narratives that have erased women’s contributions in history and political change.
Kalichini is currently one of three Democratic Vistas postdoctoral fellows at the Forschungskolleg Humanwissenschaften in Bad Homburg. She holds a Master of Fine Art and a PhD in Art History and Visual Culture from Rhodes University in South Africa. Her Solo exhibitions include Chamoneka: UnCasting Shadows at Albany History Museum in Makhanda, South Africa, ... these gestures of memory at the Künstlerhaus Bethanien in Berlin, Germany and this memory will not fade at the Fiona and Sidney Myer Gallery in Melbourne, Australia. Other exhibitions include Seekers, Seers, Soothsayers at the Zeitz MOCAA in Cape Town, South Africa; Geographies of Imagination: My Language is a Bedouin Thief at the Kochi Biennale, India; and For the Phoenix To Find Its Form In Us and On Restitution, Rehabilitation and Reparation at SAVVY Contemporary in Berlin, Germany, Woven Sanctuaries at the Rele Gallery in Los Angeles, USA and A Gathering of Stories and Memories at the Frauenmuseum in Wiesbaden among others.
About the project
As part of You better say our names. Working towards pluricultural futures series, OCA initiated a collaboration with the Livingstone Office for Contemporary Arts (LoCA) in Zambia and the artist community Casa Ma in Costa Rica to work on a home-based residency programme that developed into a discursive programme and an exhibition at The National Gallery of Zambia and the National Museum of Zambia in May 2024.
In addition to the exhibitions and programme, the publication Voicing Out Silences, published in cooperation with ASSATA, encompasses contributions from Anawana Haloba, Gala Berger, Golden Mirrors Arts Norway, Grace Tabea Tenga, Itzel Esquivel, Kabila Kyowa Stéphane Emery, Rafiki, Ruth Simbao, Yuderkys Espinosa Miñoso, Yuniris Ramírez Familia.
