“What’s extraordinary is how Mujinga has manipulated her elements to produce a succinct summation of [our] multiple traumas.”
—Art in America
Norwegian artist and musician Sandra Mujinga works at the intersection of speculative fiction and Afrofuturism, investigating economies of visibility and disappearance. In Sunless Mouths, a new installation and durational performance created specifically for the Armory’s Veterans Room, Mujinga continues a line of inquiry developed in her video installation Amnesia? Amnesia? (2019), turning her attention to an increasingly melancholic relationship with the sun.
Sunless Mouths explores distance and intimacy through worldbuilding rooted in selective memory. Set in the aftermath of abandonment and estrangement, two siblings confront the silence between them, unsure if what they see is real or merely the shadow cast by grief.
Combining original electronic music, a pre-recorded radio play, live performance, and a fabricated frosted-glass environment, Mujinga investigates how we live alongside one another: how closely we know each other, and how architecture, climate, and memory shape, or obstruct, that closeness. Using shifting light, layered sound, textured glass, and bodies in motion, the work reframes how we perceive our cities and our neighbors, suggesting intimacy not as something given, but as something that must be continuously negotiated, remembered, and reimagined.
The Artists Studio is made possible with support from the Norwegian Consulate General in New York.
Public support is provided by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Kathy Hochul and the New York State Legislature as well as the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council under the leadership of Speaker Adrienne Adams.
Photo: Courtesy of the artist
November 20–21, 2025
Thursday, November 20 at 7:30pm
Friday, November 21 at 8:00pm
Performance Details
Veterans Room
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Tickets: $45 (plus fees)
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