Dev Dhunsi
Installation view, Unmistakably You, Nitja Center for Contemporary Art, Lillestrøm, Norway, 2026.
Emerging from the photobook Mixed, this exhibition unfolds as a spatial fable on language, belonging, and mixed as an artistic method, expanding its concerns into space. If the book built a mythical world across pages, Unmistakably You opens that world physically, as a labyrinth of jacquard-woven textiles, bamboo modules, and large-scale photographs.
At its core lies the same question: what happens when language fails to name lived experience? In Norway, there is no word that fully translates “mixed” without reproducing ideas of race. Dhunsi takes this linguistic absence as a starting point, approaching identity not as a fixed category, but as a shifting, porous process: something that slips, reforms, and resists clean definition.
The exhibition uses mixing not only as theme, but as method. Documentary and myth, archive and allegory, body and structure intertwine. Photographic images are woven into textile surfaces; narratives appear in fragments; pathways fold back on themselves.
When entering Unmistakably You, visitors will move through a spatial fable where orientation is gently unsettled and the act of looking becomes embodied. Where the photobook Mixed proposes an experimental, mythical space for new forms of life, Unmistakably You invite audiences to step inside it. The room becomes a rehearsal for complexity, where Identity is not something we possess, but something we perform, something that vibrates between materials, memories, and movement.
Unmistakably You is curated by Kathrine Wilson, and realised with support from Billedkunstnernes Vederlagsfond and Norsk fotografisk fond.
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