Saints and Sinners: Illustrations of Existence

Wamala Joesph Kyeyune’s solo exhibition, his body of work in this exhibition focuses on what
existence is like for the black body through a religious lens. Multiple cultural innovations have
arisen through religious imagery to intervene in societal and individual relations, and to shift
power structures that govern the existence of the black body, Wamala examines how these
innovations have translated and persevered in the Ugandan context.
Has religious imagery maintained entrenched power structures? Or has it helped create
pathways for more autonomous societal and individual interactions? This is what Wamala
focuses on by depicting the black body in multiple states of existence through the religious
image; supplication, penance, hope, stasis and content.