Amber Ablett (she/her) is an artist and writer based in Vestlandet, Norway. Using performance, text, sound and re-enactment, her work looks at the importance of belonging to how we be together, with a focus on how our society shapes, reflects, controls and limits our multifaceted identities. Ablett uses her own position, as a Black woman of Irish, Trinidadian and British heritage living in Norway, as a starting point to create a space for questioning, communality and critical thinking; she is interested in how we learn about ourselves through learning about other people and the conflict between our internal and percieved sense of home. Stepping away from spectacle, Ablett often uses workshops and gatherings as an alternative to normative exhibition frameworks.

The exhibition is part of the exhibition series Undergrowth, supported by the Bergesen Foundation and Talent Norway. The “Room for Rest” is supported by Alcro.