Eric Magassa

During the residency, and for the exhibition In the Wake of the Waves, Eric Magassa has produced the installation No signal, Still Speaking (video, sound, installation, 2025).

Between the silence of the mast and the noise of the airwaves, the installation No signal, Still speaking evolves like an echoing conversation across time and sea. Here, past and present conjure in a spatial collage where voices, rhythms and fragments of moving images leak out sounds that have carried both resistance and dreams, from nightly broadcasts to songs of freedom, echoes of voices and rhythms that refuse to be silent. No signal, Still speaking weaves together three visual and three sound elements that both counteract and interact with each other and where new Creole frequencies arise.

Eric Magassa’s artistic practice encompasses collage, painting, photography and video, often combined in multifaceted, large-scale installations. His distinctively colorful compositions revolve around decolonial narratives and questions of identity, place and belonging. Magassa’s processing of various archives and making visible visual patterns in the often overlooked, explores ways of seeing and thinking, disturbing the canonized white cube and its narrow aesthetics.    

Magassa studied at Central Saint Martins in London, and the Art Students League of New York. He has exhibited widely, including at institutions like Malmö Konsthall (2023), Tensta Konsthall (2021–22) and Moderna Museet Stockholm (2018), as well as biennials like the Gwangju Biennale (2024), Borås Art Biennial (2024) and Göteborg International Biennial for Contemporary Art (GIBCA [2019]). He lives and works in Gothenburg, Sweden.