NOT EVERYTHING THAT SURVIVES IS WRITTEN DOWN.

Some things survive in documents. Others survive in gesture, ritual, and story.

Portrait of artist Jonah Batambuze, whose practice explores memory, ritual, diaspora, and Black × Brown cultural relation.

Some things survive in recipes.

Some survive in family photographs.

Some survive in the way a hand hesitates before reaching across a table.

Sometimes the absence is the archive.

My work follows these inheritances through objects, archives, institutions, bodies, and public space.

I am an Ugandan-American interdisciplinary artist working across sculpture, installation, moving image, writing, and archival research.

My projects often begin with something small: a photograph found in a suitcase, a gesture learned without explanation, an everyday object. They become ways of examining the systems we inherit before we have language for them.

This work forms part of Reconstruction Studies, an artistic methodology examining how history, power, and knowledge move through objects, bureaucracies, bodies, institutions, and everyday life.

I am the founder of BlindianProject, a living archive exploring Black × Brown histories and diasporic memory.

My sculptural installation The Hands of Gods made its European debut during Art Basel 2025.

Family archive photographs used within Jonah Batambuze’s practice exploring memory, migration, and inherited histories.

Ready for the work? → The Archive

Not a keynote. A gathering.

Talks, screenings, workshops, and live encounters around memory, ritual, migration, and relation.

Jonah Batambuze creates collective encounters exploring how memory is inherited through ritual, migration, and social life.