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I Wiiyi (2024) How do you represent victims of a regime, war, conflict, and other atrocities that we have witnessed in this world? How do numbers, often repeated in news headlines and historical reports, communicate the scale of human loss? Can they ever truly reflect the complexity of lived lives, or the silence left behind?Learn More 
Lubiri Mengo (2024) is an installation rooted in the psychic ruins of postcolonial trauma, state violence, and survival. Installed within the symbolic geography of Lubiri Mengo—the former palace of the King of Buganda—the work confronts a dark and largely undocumented chapter from Uganda’s past: the torture practices used during the regime of Idi Amin.


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Tannhäuser (2022-2025)This exploratory installation investigates classical music theory's material and physical dimensions through the materiality, deconstruction, and reconstruction of the first act of Wagner’s Tannhäuser (1845).

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A Conversation (2020) is a sculptural installation exploring the emotional terrain of memory, care, and anticipatory grief. It was created during a time when the artist’s mother was living with dementia and as the world was fractured by the isolating constraints of the COVID-19 pandemic. The work captures a moment of suspended dialogue between a mother and daughter.


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