THE UNFURLING OF MY ABJECT RAGE

The Unfurling of My Abject Rage, by Chela Yego and Nyakiro, is a cathartic response to anger, an exploration of collective rage through the delicate yet powerful medium of handmade paper. Rooted in historical and cultural expressions of grief and fury, this exhibition channels raw emotional energy into a body of work that embraces both destruction and creation, fragility and force. In the exhibition, paper becomes skin, wound, and vessel. The manipulation of fibres and found materials becomes an act of both exposure and defiance. Chela and Nyakiro come into confrontation with the ruptures beneath symbolic order, where the self is gushed open and suspended between inside and outside. Drawing from Julia Kristeva’s essay, “Powers of Horror”, the exhibition explores how meaning emerges from what is cast off. Abjection, according to Kristeva, is both repulsive and magnetic. A collapsed border that destabilizes the self and the systems that seek to contain it. This exhibition invites viewers to witness the breaking point, where personal and political boundaries blur, and where abjection becomes a generative force for feeling, thinking, and becoming.