Sandra Mujinga

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.