Born 19th December, 1990 in Uganda, Rwandan by nationality. I am a multi- disciplinary self-taught artist running a creative studio in Kigali. My arts practice ranges from visual arts in mixed media paintings, photography and sculptures with interest in architecture for furniture design to performance art and installations. With experiences gained from participating in local and international arts projects, workshops, artist residencies and exhibitions, cultural exchanges and educational programs on leadership facilitation. These influence my role and growth as an artist.

SHORT ARTIST STATEMENT

The narrative I tell with my art is that it is really meant to act as a conductor to connect people to see themselves in the art I make. I want people to experience my work and reflect on what I represent as their own experiences reflected back to them. The content of the work is very important as it embodies reflections of personal experiences too and I believe they are not distant from a collective human experience. In my practice, I experiment quite a lot with materials which has facilitated my growth greatly. I use photographic materials, written texts, typography, and language developing artworks on canvas and paper to document and highlight social narratives and experiences, aspirations and dreams of those I engage with and portray in my work.

I am an artist using human stories to deconstruct and reconstruct social narratives therefore my art acting as a voice and tool for awareness. In my practice, the human connection comes first then the work develops from there. In the beginning I started with myself reflecting on how I represent myself tackling the idea of identity. As I developed my working process, I started to realize that the relationship between the story of the character, the material and final developed work were as important as the character themselves. And that is what my work is really. It is a complex mixture of emotions and reflections to the relationships I develop and how they impact me as an artist. I really want the people portrayed in my work to exist as representations of great resilience, and for the work to be seen as a new perspective that one can use to look back on their everyday life with...