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Nicola Vassell

Winged, pinned, and disembodied, Orupabo’s works confront the history of generational, discriminatory trauma and simultaneously offer recuperative possibilities.

Orupabo’s multidisciplinary practice excavates colonial archives and other digital sources to amass her materials of dispossessed imagery.  The temporal aspect of these photographs addresses how past depictions inform contemporary images, and how the two are intertwined.

The exhibition’s title borrows from Gayle Jones’ “Corregidora,” a 1975 novel that explores the persistent psychological tyranny of generational trauma. The book deeply resonated with the artist as she developed this body of work. 

"Orupabo’s collages are pervaded by subtly resistant and emancipatory moments: the direct gaze or the clenched fist; figures that fly or remain in a graceful, suspended state. They express pride and dignity as they attempt to transform the confining categories of image and imagination that they demonstrate or evoke." - Art Daily

Showing March 17 - April 30, 2022
Nicola Vassell Gallery - Chelsea, NYC

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