Exhibitions
Frida Orupabo and the abyss of images
Cloud of Confusion brings together for the first time in Portugal the work of the Norwegian artist, in an exhibition that transforms her digital archive into a space of tension, memory and critique.
The MAC/CCB presents Cloud of Confusion , the first solo exhibition in Portugal by artist Frida Orupabo, running until November 1, 2026. Curated by Marta Mestre, the exhibition, open since June 3, draws on the vast archive of images Orupabo has compiled on her Instagram account to construct a space permeated by the tensions between intimacy and violence.
The artist revisits and reorganizes this visual material to explore how images circulate, accumulate, and acquire new meanings in the digital environment. Her work is particularly interested in the "abyss" of images: what they contain beyond their immediate appearance, their strangeness, and the multiple resonances they generate as they move between contexts.
In dialogue with the architecture of the MAC/CCB, the exhibition is structured as a linear journey divided into eight sections. The layout physically replicates the experience of continuous scrolling characteristic of screens and digital platforms, where one image inevitably leads to another.
The exhibition's title itself alludes to the digital "cloud" where we store photographs, data, and memories, but also to the confusion generated by this immense repository of information. Between memory and oblivion, presence and absence, Cloud of Confusion thus prompts reflection on our contemporary relationship with images and on how they construct narratives, identities, and memories.
The exhibition transforms Orupabo's digital archive into a physical and critical territory, where images cease to function as isolated elements and instead establish relationships charged with tension. The result is an installation that invites viewers to observe not only what the images show, but also what they conceal, evoke, and leave open to interpretation.
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