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Her striking photographic collages take the shape of fragmented, Black, mostly female-bodied figures, exploring questions of race, family and heritage, gender, sexuality, violence, and identity.  In her research process, Orupabo mines digitised colonial archives, social media platforms and online marketplaces, revisiting histories and imagery created through a racialized lens. She began posting on Instagram in 2013; the platform functioning as a personal archive, an expressive outlet and a cataloguing system. Her collaged cut-outs question the erasure of lives, particularly lives of Black women, and those absent from history and the collective archive. The performative aspect of cutting allows Orupabo the ability to literally liberate the Black female body from its colonial past and create a radical new identity. By bridging historical archives and today’s digital platforms, Orupabo foregrounds the social and political structures that determine how we see images, and how these structures organize our thinking. The work proposes an urgently needed alternative way of seeing; an act of remembrance and a defiance against colonial histories.\n\nThe work is a bespoke piece, created specifically for the V&A.  Orupabo has combined her usual source material with that of selected items from the V&A’s digitised collection. By drawing on museum objects, many of which feature the objectified or sexualised female body, Orupabo prompts enquiry into the representational issues in public museums and encourages us to see anew. 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Orupabo has combined her usual source material with that of selected items from the V&A’s digitised collection. They include a Fredillo erotic postcard (circa 1905, museum object E.523:17-2001) featuring a nude woman riding a dragon, a portrait sketch from theatre designer Oliver Messel’s production of The Magic Flute, 1947 (S.155-2006) the hand-coloured photograph Loge d'Artistes-Madame Sans-Gêne (E.524:325-2001) and a photograph of the aerialists, the 6 Flying Banvards from 1911 (S.984-2017).  By drawing on objects from our Collection, many of which feature the objectified or sexualised female body, Orupabo prompts enquiry into the representational issues in public museums and encourages us to see anew. 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