The Vodo Arts Society and Lab (Vodo) recently transformed the Mulago hospital Uganda Child Cancer Foundation’s (UCCF) recreation space into a vibrant studio, where young patients battling cancer poured their dreams and imaginations onto canvases. The event, part of Vodo’s philanthropic arts initiative, paired volunteers with children aged 3 to 16, alongside their nurses and caretakers, for a day of therapeutic creativity.
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Zadde by Yiga Joshua is an exploration of the symbol of the banana fibre doll, the materiality of it, and how that constructs imaginaries of parenthood, childhood, and intersections between the two states. The materiality is important because, through wholly organic processes, the doll is created — this is one of the first acts of procreation and propagation by the child. The doll embodies this organic element even in abstraction; it has no fixed state embodied in it, its persona is dynamic and fluid, just as the imaginary of the child is.
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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.
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