Credibility, Proximity, and the Nordic Gaze - How Black knowledge is validated or dismissed, and how proximity to whiteness shapes that decision

Lecture by Lovette Jallow, a two-time published author and nine-time award-winning speaker, strategist, and advisor based in Stockholm.

This lecture examines how credibility is assigned in Nordic cultural spaces through tone expectations, demands for legibility, and institutional neutrality as performance. It maps how professionalism operates as a racialised sorting mechanism and offers a framework for recognising extraction disguised as interpretation.

The lecture will be held in English. The event is free and open for all, no pre-registration needed.

This event is part of the June Exhibition 2026: Shifting Coordinates, a month-long institutional takeover transforming Kunstnerforbundet into a discursive platform centering Black Nordic artistic production.

Image: Lovette Jallow. Photo: King Kunta © Lovette Jallow