“Njabala: Holding Space” is the second iteration of the annual exhibition program for the Njabala Foundation, which was launched in 2021 by Ugandan curator Martha Kazungu as a means to increase visibility for women artists. The folk tale that the show takes as its point of departure concerns a lazy girl whose parents are so rich that she never has to do anything for herself. Helpless upon their death, she gets married and summons the ghost of her mother to till the land and handle her chores. The exhibition opens with Mable Akeu’s hyperrealist charcoal-and-colored-pencil drawings, which linger
The East African
Wednesday January 20 2021
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Adorned with the wellbeing symbols My Granary, My Home is suggestive of basketry as a life fulfilling practice, that stores and provides for society, she adds.
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On display at Sarah Nakisanze’s recent exhibition titled “My Granary, My Home” were five artefacts made from local materials such as bark-cloth, cowrie shells, raffia fibres, and straws, among others, focusing on Social Sustainability.
Social Sustainability is the third dimension of Sustainable Development referring to the state of good quality of life enabled by valuable societal relationships and ecology sustenance systems.
Nakisanze says that Social Sustainability can be attained through social ideas that facilitate societal welfare including equity, wellbeing, social cohesion, participation and sustainability awareness.