In this exhibition, the audience is invited to listen to fragments of text, noise and tones with reference to trauma, healing and psychoanalysis via a number of sculptural audio stations.

No one is capable of speaking without a mouth – and stitched-up lips suggest silence. Silence as a result of not listening, or a prohibition against speaking – a conversation that defies violent muting gives association to resistance, unity and hope. 

Anawana Haloba's work explores communities' contingency within historical, cultural and architectural contexts. She is currently a Phd Fellow through the Artistic Research Fellowship Programme (PKU) at the Department of Fine Art, University of Bergen. Her research, titled Subtle Encounters, looks at women's roles in independence movements and decolonialization in Africa and the Caribbean. The exhibition Conversations with Stitched-up Lips constitutes a component in Haloba’s research.