Untitled
2019
Acrylic on canvas
4.5 x 2 metres
Cassius Fadlabi (1975) is a Sudanese artist currently based in Oslo. Working across a variety of mediums, including painting, music, text, and performance, Fadlabi reflects on transcultural interactions and on historical wounds that are yet to be overcome. In 2008, Fadlabi founded One Night Only, an evening event series showing the work of one contemporary artist each Monday night. Together with the artist Lars Cuzner, Fadlabi also created European Attraction Limited, a project addressing the history of exploitation towards people of colour in Norway, the full extent of which remains unrecognised. In his paintings, Fadlabi references postcolonial theory while seducing the viewer with culturally defunct frames of reference. Fadlabi currently runs the contemporary art space Khartoum together with Karin Erixon. Khartoum functions as a temporary home for the currently unrealisable dreams of the politically and economically unstable Outland.