This publication explores notions of African identity through the works of contemporary East African artists including Sungi Mlengeya, Tahir Carl Karmali, Lemek Tompoika, Eria Nsubuga Sane, Agnes Waruguru, Migadde Adrian, and Trevor Aloka. Exploring themes of memory, migration, place, and gender, it aims to dialogue with present-day events and past happenings in hope of imagining alternative realities in the future. Working with various media, each artist in this publication dialogues with the complexities of the African identity, and challenges the preconceived notion of what it means to...
This publication explores notions of African identity through the works of contemporary East African artists including Sungi Mlengeya, Tahir Carl K...
This publication presents a complex view of East African art that defies fixed geographies, emphasising connections that transcend borders and histories. Drawing from the ARAK Collection and inspired by the legacy of Makerere University in Uganda, this publication and exhibition – which opened at Artron Art Centre in Shenzhen, China (2025) – highlights the work of East African artists who explore identity and place amidst shifting cultural landscapes. Anchored in Lucille Clifton’s poem, “for the lame”, showcases the work of sixteen artists from both Eastern Africa and...
This publication presents a complex view of East African art that defies fixed geographies, emphasising connections that transcend borders and hist...
In this publication, artworks are looked at as an expression and documentation of one’s experiences. The layers that make up an artwork overlap, just as much as the make-up of one’s personality. The conversation put forth focuses on both the subject matter of each artist and the languages and artistic vocabulary used. The publication also provides examples of artworks where iconography that is foreign (to the artist) can be used to express something familiar, such as one’s traditions or history, and vice versa. It provides a new narrative to understand the art of Africa in a world...
In this publication, artworks are looked at as an expression and documentation of one’s experiences. The layers that make up an artwork overlap, ...
This publication brings together thirty-five contemporary artists from the ARAK Collection, who hail from thirteen different countries across the continent of Africa. Rooted in a diversity of experiences, and expressed through an equally diverse range of mediums and techniques, this publication and exhibition – which was curated by Jamil Osmar Parasol and opened at Artron Art Centre in Shenzhen, China (2025) – explores social, psychological, and environmental themes. It deconstructs Afro-futurism and diverges from Western narratives, offering a journey through multiple realities and...
This publication brings together thirty-five contemporary artists from the ARAK Collection, who hail from thirteen different countries across the c...
This publication foregrounds the physical, historical, spiritual and existential entanglements of contemporary life in Africa. Born of different cultural identities, beliefs and practices, the artworks included enable a dialogue about the complexities that inspire African artists, as well as the ongoing presence of rich and complex traditions in a contemporary world. Through distorted faces and fragmented landscapes, one can get a sense of memory’s haunting presence and the traces of knowledge about these spheres of existence.
This publication foregrounds the physical, historical, spiritual and existential entanglements of contemporary life in Africa. Born of different cu...
Anchored through the contested definition and experiences of locality—as it informs the spatial and material narratives of artworks present within the ARAK collection—this publication attempt to trace the life of selected artworks from their place of creation and showcase the less documented modes of practices that birthed them. Outlining the arts ecosystem of three East African countries (Kenya, Ethiopia, and Uganda), as well as their diaspora, the exhibition focuses on what is particular about this triangular nexus, as it relates to the way artists produce work and how they...
Anchored through the contested definition and experiences of locality—as it informs the spatial and material narratives of artworks present within t...
