Exhibition Opening & Artist Talk: Black Inertia by Sandy Harry Ceesay

🔸 Exhibition Title: Black Inertia
🗓️ Location: Falkenbergsgatan 4A, SE-214 24 Malmö, Sverige
📅 Exhibition Duration: 17 April - 31 May 2026
🔹 Vernissage: 17 April, 7–9 PM
🔹 Performance: 17 April, 7:30 PM
🔹 Artist Talk: 19 April, 2–4 PM

Sandy Harry Ceesay’s solo exhibition Black Inertia unfolds through the rich layers of temporal, spatial, and material realities within the archive. Created in collaboration with Black Archives Sweden, the exhibit invites viewers to perceive the archive not merely as a vessel of knowledge, but as a dynamic realm where memories, images, and meanings persistently circulate.

Inspired by the concept of inertia from physics, this exhibition delves into the themes of movement and stillness in relation to the Black experience. It offers a thought-provoking lens to explore how historical, social, and political dynamics shape Black life's journey—whether it accelerates, halts, or shifts direction. Importantly, movement manifests not only as speed; it may exhibit as quiet endurance or subtle transformations over time.

Throughout the exhibition, Ceesay showcases a diverse array of works—paintings, sketches, film, and objects—reflecting on Blackness as a relational practice. Fleeting fragments, intricate details, and subtle traces meld into innovative constellations, beckoning viewers to engage closely with what may often be overlooked.

As visitors navigate through the exhibition, they encounter a landscape of suspended motion—moments where imagery seems to pause yet continues to evolve beneath the surface. This space transforms the archive into both a foundational anchor and a launching point, where the past lingers while paving the way to possible futures.

👤 About Sandy Harry Ceesay:
Sandy Harry Ceesay (he/they) is a Swedish-Gambian interdisciplinary artist, writer, and curator whose work interrogates identity, memory, marginalization, and power, viewed through a queer and decolonial perspective. Ceesay graduated as a dancer from the Amsterdam University of the Arts in 2020 and has since expanded their artistic practice to encompass various media, including performance, painting, drawing, video, and text. In 2022, they published their debut novel, Kärlekens Exil, and are currently developing their second novel, among other creative projects.

📌 Credits:
Curator: Jonelle Twum
Technician: Jesper Veileby
Communication: Zawadi Odenyo
Graphic Designer: Linda Hallstan
Production Assistant: Ludvig Stoltz
The exhibition is supported by the Swedish Arts Council and Malmö Stad.

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