More Than a Bio. A Blueprint.
THE BORDERS THEY BUILT INTO OUR BODIES, I TURNED INTO LANGUAGE.
Installation. Film. Food. Gesture. Every medium, a memory weapon.
Jonah Batambuze
is a Ugandan-American interdisciplinary artist working between London and New York. Through film, installation, writing, diagrams, and public gatherings, his practice examines how power is inherited through everyday life—through gesture, ritual, discipline, memory, and the body.
Working across kitchens, classrooms, archives and tables, Batambuze explores how power lives inside ordinary gestures. Refusal, left-handedness, food ritual, and domestic choreography become living archives through which memory is carried, trained, and inherited.
Batambuze is the founder of The BlindianProject, a living archive dedicated to Black × Brown histories, diasporic memory, and shared histories across communities. His work moves between research and atmosphere, combining archival material, speculative objects, moving image, and embodied participation to construct spaces where histories can be encountered collectively rather than explained from a distance.
His sculptural installation The Hands of Gods—a sensory archive of food, refusal, and embodied memory—made its European debut during Art Basel 2025. His work has been supported by the Metal Culture UK Artist Residency and presented internationally through exhibitions, screenings, lectures, and research-led platforms.
Across film, installation, archives, and public memory, this evolving body of work forms part of an ongoing inquiry Batambuze refers to as Reconstruction Studies: an artistic investigation into how bodies inherit borders—and how memory, relation, and ritual might be used to reassemble what history divided.
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Not a keynote. A gathering.
Talks, screenings, workshops, and live encounters around memory, ritual, migration, and relation.