Amber Ablett
The Fallow Year: Inner Rooms
The Fallow Year: Inner Rooms is a site-specific installation and participatory project 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.
When
29.05.26 – 09.08.26
Where
The Room for Rest
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About the artist
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 stories of generational migration and Afro-European descent, as starting points 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 project's development was supported by a residency at Munch's Atelier. The Resting Room is supported by Alcro.
