https://jonelletwum.com Jonelle Twum Mon, 05 Jan 2026 11:45:40 +0000 https://jonelletwum.com en https://jonelletwum.com/Homepage Mon, 03 Jun 2024 12:47:34 +0000 Jonelle Twum https://jonelletwum.com/Homepage https://jonelletwum.com/Dreams-in-Waiting-1 Mon, 03 Jun 2024 12:47:31 +0000 Jonelle Twum https://jonelletwum.com/Dreams-in-Waiting-1 Dreams in WaitingFilm | 2026 Upon arriving in Sweden, Ernestina receives a voice message from her home country, filled with well wishes and expectations for her new life. Two decades later, now long-term unemployed, she listens to the same message again and is transported between past and present. Read more <img width="700" height="700" width_o="700" height_o="700" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/a2e9f3e9558cced45d6711809543e43d90fad0ccf726354b0aec2c119434d77f/a_message_thumb.jpg" data-mid="225310796" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/700/i/a2e9f3e9558cced45d6711809543e43d90fad0ccf726354b0aec2c119434d77f/a_message_thumb.jpg" /> https://jonelletwum.com/Stitching-Absence-1 Mon, 05 Jan 2026 11:07:38 +0000 Jonelle Twum https://jonelletwum.com/Stitching-Absence-1 Stitching AbsenceMixed-media work on paper | 2025Stitching Absence is a wall-based photographic work composed of photographs from expired and blank identification cards, assembled and stitched with thread. Thread functions as both connective tissue and visible trace, marking attempts to hold together identities that have been invalidated, suspended, or left unrecorded.&nbsp;Read more <img width="6000" height="4000" width_o="6000" height_o="4000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/b68d8246a1ae0b12d1031a2a447d2dee3fb17e2cbd668fa05cf2280dc3d61e5f/Jonelle-Twum-Exhibition-WaitingTides-19.7.2025-26.jpg" data-mid="242443466" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/b68d8246a1ae0b12d1031a2a447d2dee3fb17e2cbd668fa05cf2280dc3d61e5f/Jonelle-Twum-Exhibition-WaitingTides-19.7.2025-26.jpg" /> https://jonelletwum.com/In-the-wake-of-waiting-the-sea-remembers-1 Sun, 04 Jan 2026 17:02:20 +0000 Jonelle Twum https://jonelletwum.com/In-the-wake-of-waiting-the-sea-remembers-1 In the wake of waiting, the sea remembersSite-specific installation | 2025-&nbsp;A site-responsive multimedia installation centered on a speculative soundwork that transforms the exhibition space into a submerged subaquatic environment. The soundwork unfolds as a requiem voice by Drexciyans.&nbsp;Read more <img width="6000" height="4000" width_o="6000" height_o="4000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/f27e4264368075305d5e555510e4fb40075f1a4d7cf84457290085f1b407a032/jonelle-twum-exhibition-24.7.25-25-vers-2.jpg" data-mid="242441946" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/f27e4264368075305d5e555510e4fb40075f1a4d7cf84457290085f1b407a032/jonelle-twum-exhibition-24.7.25-25-vers-2.jpg" /><img width="2100" height="1500" width_o="2100" height_o="1500" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/43e6d7a499d3f112f05a47481ba413ea53bc402a2008f093f7d6007bf2b6bc56/Untitled-3.png" data-mid="251091870" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/43e6d7a499d3f112f05a47481ba413ea53bc402a2008f093f7d6007bf2b6bc56/Untitled-3.png" /> https://jonelletwum.com/Waiting-in-the-Between-1 Sun, 04 Jan 2026 15:34:33 +0000 Jonelle Twum https://jonelletwum.com/Waiting-in-the-Between-1 Waiting in the BetweenInstallation | 2025 Waiting in the Between takes the form of a waiting room, referencing bureaucratic spaces shaped by delay and uncertainty. Seating, sound, text, and lighting create an environment of suspended time.&nbsp;Read more <img width="5596" height="3731" width_o="5596" height_o="3731" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/495b59f44ade61234e505eedf20adb5bb16a791f87fe790d7dd0e1518178d6c7/jonelle-twum-exhibition-24.7.25-2.jpg" data-mid="242417898" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/495b59f44ade61234e505eedf20adb5bb16a791f87fe790d7dd0e1518178d6c7/jonelle-twum-exhibition-24.7.25-2.jpg" /> https://jonelletwum.com/Broadcasts-from-the-International-Idleness-Union Thu, 20 Feb 2025 10:23:30 +0000 Jonelle Twum https://jonelletwum.com/Broadcasts-from-the-International-Idleness-Union Broadcasts from the International Idleness Union Installation | 2025 A spatial installation conceived as a speculative radio broadcast and a room for rest. The radio broadcast comprises an amalgamation of archival speeches and texts from Black thinkers reflecting on idleness, anti-work, and recovery.&nbsp;Read more <img width="813" height="1016" width_o="813" height_o="1016" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/01cb87b931ecc8bbbdbdf1445d3fb4dd532e733da92245b638954fee44438129/GIBCA-.jpg" data-mid="240584587" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/813/i/01cb87b931ecc8bbbdbdf1445d3fb4dd532e733da92245b638954fee44438129/GIBCA-.jpg" /> https://jonelletwum.com/ITOS Mon, 03 Jun 2024 12:47:31 +0000 Jonelle Twum https://jonelletwum.com/ITOS I think of silences when I think of youFilm | 2023 I think of silences when I think of you is a lyrical portrait of a woman’s engagement in Ghana and her impending migration in the late 1990s. The film depicts a woman's navigation through the world in relation to silence, set against her desires and dreams of Europe. Read more <img width="700" height="700" width_o="700" height_o="700" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/98b37eca29b55a15557058107ca451532aed66373fd6cc020078cd549cf48a55/ITOS_thumbnail.jpg" data-mid="223526038" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/700/i/98b37eca29b55a15557058107ca451532aed66373fd6cc020078cd549cf48a55/ITOS_thumbnail.jpg" /> https://jonelletwum.com/A-Mothers-Body-1 Mon, 03 Jun 2024 12:47:30 +0000 Jonelle Twum https://jonelletwum.com/A-Mothers-Body-1 A Mother’s BodyFilm | 2021 A Mother’s Body is an intimate portrayal of two women hotel cleaners from a daughter’s perspective. While the women perform their daily work, the daughter reflects on how their profession affects their bodies and relationship to time. Read more <img width="700" height="700" width_o="700" height_o="700" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/f5a07d5563f9e681fd1cc59cb0aafea0b0c1dc4477d3879afe37d5046b4ca381/enmammaskropp_thumb.jpg" data-mid="223525989" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/700/i/f5a07d5563f9e681fd1cc59cb0aafea0b0c1dc4477d3879afe37d5046b4ca381/enmammaskropp_thumb.jpg" /> https://jonelletwum.com/Black-Archives-Sweden-1 Thu, 13 Jun 2024 11:23:24 +0000 Jonelle Twum https://jonelletwum.com/Black-Archives-Sweden-1 Black Archives Sweden2018–ongoing Black Archives Sweden is a contemporary archive centered around the experiences and narratives of Afro-Swedes and Black people in Sweden. From a queerfeminist and diasporic perspective Black Archives Sweden works to produce artworks, collect photographs, video- and sound collections, letters, texts, oral histories, and ephemera. Read more <img width="4000" height="5000" width_o="4000" height_o="5000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/ede1023252e67fdb69386314c9ef20aae74fa6b467d2f6a40ee80f88bcffcfe9/black-archives-sweden-12.10.24-13.jpg" data-mid="242444929" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/ede1023252e67fdb69386314c9ef20aae74fa6b467d2f6a40ee80f88bcffcfe9/black-archives-sweden-12.10.24-13.jpg" /> https://jonelletwum.com/All-our-hands-combined-1 Mon, 05 Jan 2026 11:45:40 +0000 Jonelle Twum https://jonelletwum.com/All-our-hands-combined-1 All our hands combined Exhibition,Göteborg International Biennial for Contemporary Art | 2025 As part of Göteborg International Biennial for Contemporary Art #13 (GIBCA 2025), Black Archives Sweden (BAS) presented All Our Hands Combined — a two-part exhibition that unfolded across Black Archives Sweden and The Gothenburg Museum of Art. Read more <img width="3858" height="5787" width_o="3858" height_o="5787" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/68322a4de95adc033efcb405464d8cdd61a5ca1ae8f012c8f175da62c6ae5de6/black-archives-22.jpg" data-mid="242444845" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/68322a4de95adc033efcb405464d8cdd61a5ca1ae8f012c8f175da62c6ae5de6/black-archives-22.jpg" />