Nicola Vassell Gallery is pleased to present “Closed Up Like A Fist,” an exhibition of collages and digital prints by Frida Orupabo, on view March 17 - April 30, 2022.   

Orupabo's multidisciplinary practice excavates colonial archives and digital sources to amass her materials of dispossessed imagery. By splicing and combining these depictions, she brings into question the mutability of identities, delicately bound by fragmented components. The temporal aspect of these photographs addresses how past depictions inform contemporary images, and how the two are intertwined.