Frida Orupabo

In her first solo exhibition in Portugal, Frida Orupabo revisits the vast image archive she has been assembling on her Instagram account: a collection comprising material from colonial archives, ethnographic photographs, family portraits, pop culture icons, and digital fragments. For the artist, this archive lays bare the tensions between intimacy and violence, establishing a critical and emotional space. Inspired by digital flow, the exhibition emphasises the “abyss” of images—their strangeness and their dispersed reverberations. In dialogue with the architecture of MAC/CCB, the show unfolds as a linear sequence of eight moments, echoing the continuous sliding between screens that defines our digital experience. Its title evokes both the digital cloud where images and data are stored, and the fog of information, memory, and oblivion.

Curator Marta Mestre

◾ Conversation in the clouds
Wednesday, june 3 at 7.00 pm in the MAC/CCB Auditorium
Prior to the opening of Cloud of Confusion,artist Frida Orupabo joins curators Nuria Enguita and Marta Mestre for a conversation, in English.
Free participation, subject to seat availability.

◾ Reading and Listening Room
cadavre exquis / cadáver esquisito / exquisite corpse
Departing from the idea that the museum is inhabited by many bodies, experiences, and forms of knowledge, this project gives voice to people who rarely form part of its institutional discourse: CCB workers and visitors who do not always recognise themselves in artistic languages or have opportunities to be heard. Conceived by the collective FACA and Ícaro Lira, with guidance from Andreia C. Coutinho, Ícaro Lira, and Maribel Mendes Sobreira, the project invites us to look at the exhibition far beyond the artworks themselves, as a living archive in constant transformation. A table—a place of encounter, conversation, and collective construction—serves as the central device, inspired by the Surrealists’ cadavre exquis. Starting from simple questions, emotions, memories, and interpretations are explored. Developed over four moments, this project creates a space for listening, sharing, and collective creation, grounded in the exhibition and its multiple layers of meaning..

 Visit to the exhibition

◾ Sunday, june 21 and  july 12, at 11:00am
Free admission, subject to prior registration to the email address servico.educativo.museu@ccb.pt