Ateker, ijasi biyayi? – Greetings from the road (A dedication)

The exhibition “Ateker, ijasi biyayi? – Greetings from the road (A dedication)” marks a homecoming for Pamela Enyonu, being her first solo exhibition in the country. The exhibition includes older pieces as well as a completely new body of work that sets out to explore Ugandan history and self-understanding narrated through Enyonu’s particular gaze, in a country whose borders were drawn in someone else’s sketchbook. Based on readings as diverse as Okot p’Bitek’s “Songs of Lawino” through Maya Angelou, Chinua Achebe and Frantz Fanon (to only name a few) the artist’s works gaze into the shards of the broken mirror we like to call home – from its social interactions to its foundational myths.