I Dress, Therefore I Disrupt
14 - 28 June 2025
Vernissage June 14th at 17:00-19:00
Kyrkoesplanaden 20 D
Dressing is never neutral. It is a negotiation shaped by fear, desire, memory, and refusal. In this exhibition, clothing becomes a strategy of survival, not performance, but a lived response to systems of control.
Through photography, sculpture, and text, I Dress, Therefore I Disrupt explores the politics of appearance under postmigrant conditions. The garments are not curated for spectacle; they emerge from daily life, from moving through checkpoints, institutions, and borders. Dressing becomes a tactical act: to signal or obscure, to pass or to resist. Drawing on Édouard Glissant’s notion of opacity, the right not to be fully known, I refuse the demand for clarity. I do not dress to be understood. I dress to remain complex, to inhabit presence on my own terms.
Opening days & hours
15 June: 12- 16
22 June: 12- 16
27 June: 12- 16
Finissage 28 June: 19- 21
About the artist:
Alqumit Alhamad (born 1992) is a Syrian multidisciplinary artist. He holds a Master’s degree in Fine Arts from Valand Academy of Art (2024), a degree in Visual Communication from Östra Grevie Folk High School (2022), a design education from the Art School of Latakia, and a Bachelor's degree in Graphic Design and Animation from the University of Aleppo for Applied and Fine Arts (2014).
In 2025, Alhamad was named Young Artist of the Year and was awarded the Vera and Göran Agnekil Prize by the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Stockholm. That same year, his project War Trauma won Ung Svensk Form 2025, where he was also named Young Designer of the Year. Additionally, he received a commission to create a stamp design for PostNord in Stockholm.
His artistic practice is rooted in experiences of war, displacement, and queer identities. With a criticalapproach to systems of control, he investigates how history is preserved, represented, and
communicated. Through sculpture, drawing, painting, textiles, digital illustration, and installation, hecombines archival work, traditional craftsmanship, and sensory materials such as scent, sound, and tactility.
His work has been exhibited in a range of international and Swedish galleries and institutions including Berlin Central Station (2017, Germany), The British Museum (2019, United Kingdom),
SOAS University of London (2019, United Kingdom), SEAS Brighton Gallery (2021, United Kingdom), Blå Stället Konsthall (2022, Sweden), Steneby Konsthall (2023, Sweden), Gallery Detriti – GIBCA Extended (2023, Sweden), Liljevalchs Konsthall (2024, 2025, Sweden), Not Quite Konsthall (2024, Sweden), Hammarkullen Konsthall (2024, Sweden), and Dunkers kulturhus (2025, Sweden), among others.
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