The Fallow Year

The Fallow Year is a site-specific installation and participatory project by Amber Ablett in the “Room for Rest” at Kunstnernes Hus that reimagines the capsule hotel (a structure linked to capitalist efficiency and production) as a communal and reflective space within the gallery.

Rather than providing escape from productivity, the project reframes rest as an intentional, political act essential to collective transformation, especially for those involved in care work, activism, liberation and marginalised experience. Each of the five capsules focus on a different theme relating to nature and liberation work and is activated through workshops with invited co-hosts.