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    Katesi Jacqueline Kalange, Nature Invasion: Ndegeya. 2023. 5.14 metres long, 2.74 metres wide and 2.74 metres high. Plastic strips and metal. Photo: Musa photography, Giyo photography Collaboration credit: Jabel, Musa, Mad welders team led by Kasirisimbi Tadeo, Lutaaya Sharon, a weaving group led by Mr Sabawa Sulaiti, students of Kyambogo University.

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    Katesi Jacqueline Kalange, Badere, 2023. Recycled plastic, metal and paint, clay mixed with glue. 19.7 feet long, 14.4 feet wide, 11.8 feet high. Photo: Nubuke foundation, Inkz photography. Collaboration credit: The young children that come to Nubuke foundation especially on the weekends, the weaving community of artisans who weave batakari alongside their apprentices, the youth neighbouring Nubuke foundation, Nubuke foundation staff, Bilal, Jute and his welding team, the traders selling second hand denim jeans in Tamale and Wa-Loho, Frederick Bamfo who donated some recycled denim jeans towards this project, school for the blind and deaf.

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    Katesi Jacqueline Kalange, Badere, 2023. Recycled plastic, metal and paint, clay mixed with glue. 19.7 feet long, 14.4 feet wide, 11.8 feet high. Photo: Nubuke foundation, Inkz photography. Collaboration credit: The young children that come to Nubuke foundation especially on the weekends, the weaving community of artisans who weave batakari alongside their apprentices, the youth neighbouring Nubuke foundation, Nubuke foundation staff, Bilal, Jute and his welding team, the traders selling second hand denim jeans in Tamale and Wa-Loho, Frederick Bamfo who donated some recycled denim jeans towards this project, school for the blind and deaf.

  • Katesi_Jacqueline_Kalange_Ndegeya_01_2023_web-res

    Katesi Jacqueline Kalange, Nature Invasion: Ndegeya. 2023. 5.14 metres long, 2.74 metres wide and 2.74 metres high. Plastic strips and metal. Photo: Musa photography, Giyo photography Collaboration credit: Jabel, Musa, Mad welders team led by Kasirisimbi Tadeo, Lutaaya Sharon, a weaving group led by Mr Sabawa Sulaiti, students of Kyambogo University.

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    Katesi Jacqueline Kalange, Nature Invasion: Omulondo 1, 2021. 19.49 metres long, 1.38 metres wide and 0.9 metres high. Plastic strips, polythene bags, wiremesh and metal. Photo: 32 degrees East, Magezi photography, Framez and wavez photography. Collaboration credit: Mad welders team led by Kasirisimbi Tadeo, maama Lucky and maama Rafiiki; Mzee Sam, Hamza Kimera, Zoey the Storyteller, Asiku Asiku, Abalo, Kashemeza Precious and Nalukenge Rosemary. The artist also collaborated with a team of second-hand clothes traders situated in Shauriyako, Kampala town, who assisted them in collecting sacks of discarded plastic strips that were originally used to package bales of second-hand clothes from the global North and beyond.

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    Katesi Jacqueline Kalange, Nature Invasion: Omulondo 1, 2021. 19.49 metres long, 1.38 metres wide and 0.9 metres high. Plastic strips, polythene bags, wiremesh and metal. Photo: 32 degrees East, Magezi photography, Framez and wavez photography. Collaboration credit: Mad welders team led by Kasirisimbi Tadeo, maama Lucky and maama Rafiiki; Mzee Sam, Hamza Kimera, Zoey the Storyteller, Asiku Asiku, Abalo, Kashemeza Precious and Nalukenge Rosemary. The artist also collaborated with a team of second-hand clothes traders situated in Shauriyako, Kampala town, who assisted them in collecting sacks of discarded plastic strips that were originally used to package bales of second-hand clothes from the global North and beyond.

Katesi Jacqueline Kalange’s (Uganda) practice spans sculpture, architecture, painting, research, installation and performance art. Grounded in African indigenous wisdom, it seeks to re-present this knowledge beyond colonial frameworks that have mislabelled it as primitive, inferior, outdated and unGodly. Through community collaborations and weaving both as method and concept, she maps and materialises ecological, cultural and communal memory as a form of relational cartography.

For her residency at Delfina Foundation, Katesi is interested in working at the intersection of memory and history. She will approach material, not only as physical substance, but as a carrier of knowledge, memory and collective practice. Through this lens, makers and the act of making are revealed as ways in which knowledge is embodied, and wisdom circulates across time, place and community.

Katesi has participated in residencies at the MIASA department, University of Ghana (2024); GAS Foundation, Nigeria (2024); and Nubuke Foundation, Wa-Loho Centre for Textiles and Clay, Ghana (2023). Her work featured in KLA Art Festival organised by 32 Degrees East in Kampala, Uganda (2021), and Silent Invasions: The Art of Material Hacking, a collective exhibition organised in collaboration between Underground, Vodo Arts, Amasaka Gallery, Uganda and Blaxtarlines in Ghana (2023).

Katesi was born in Uganda and is currently based in Kampala, Uganda.

With support from:

Delfina’s Network of Africa Patrons

Artist’s website

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