Opening: Jonelle Twum, In the wake of waiting, the sea remembers

Wed May 13 2026 at 05:00 pm to 07:00 pm UTC+02:00

Astrid Noacks Atelier | Copenhagen

Astrid Noacks Atelier
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Opening: Jonelle Twum, In the wake of waiting, the sea remembers
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Welcome to the opening of Jonelle Twum’s exhibition “In the wake of waiting, the sea remembers” in Astrid Noacks Atelier, Wednesday 13 May 5–7pm.
Jonelle Twum’s speculative exhibition “In the wake of waiting, the sea remembers” unfolds as a deep-sea requiem from the Black Atlantis. Drawing on the myth of Drexciya, the work imagines underwater beings who transmit a song of mourning to those on land, attuned to the continuities of history and violence. Interweaving spatial, temporal, and historical dimensions with collective memory, the exhibition renders the sea as a resonant site of Black death and becoming.
The exhibition is curated by Katarina Stenbeck and Carla Zaccagnini as part of "roda – soft water on hard stone."

BIOS:
Jonelle Twum is an artist and filmmaker working across film, installation, sound, and text. Her practice engages migration, memory, and the body through Black feminist thought and the rhythms of the everyday. Moving between fiction and memory, she uses speculation, silence, and abstraction to attend to the obscured. Language operates as a form of protection, resisting the full legibility of Black life within systems of surveillance and consumption.
roda – soft water on hard stone is an art project that explores the consequences of the logic of colonial and capitalist violence. The project looks at how we can develop a greater sensitivity to the coexistence of human and more-than-human worlds that can guide us towards other ways of living, learning, creating and believing. Curated by Katarina Stenbeck & Carla Zaccagnini, roda – soft water on hard stone unfolds as three sea voyages in the opposite direction of the European colonial trade route, nine art commissions and the event programme The Glossary on Wisdom & Worldmaking. For more information visit www.roda-softwateronhardstone.org.

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Astrid Noacks Atelier, Rådmandsgade 34, 2200 København N, Danmark, Copenhagen , Denmark

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