Jonah Batambuze

is a Ugandan-American interdisciplinary artist and cultural architect and the originator of Reconstruction Studies—a research-driven artistic framework examining how power, identity, and belief are inherited through colliding archives of family, state, faith, migration, and media. Working between London and New York, his practice investigates how these archives are rehearsed in everyday spaces—homes, kitchens, classrooms, and streets—where bodies are trained through ritual, gesture, and discipline.

Working across installation, film, writing, and situational activation, Batambuze produces living systems that treat food, movement, and memory as epistemic materials rather than cultural symbols. Gesture, left-handedness, domestic choreography, and refusal function as embodied archives of caste, race, purity, and colonial discipline—structuring everyday touch, memory, and belonging.

Batambuze is the founder of The BlindianProject, a global living archive dedicated to Black × Brown relations, diasporic formations, and postcolonial entanglements across global systems of power. His films function as nonlinear rituals, while his installations and speculative objects imagine futures colonization interrupted or erased: tables that remember, packages that should exist but do not, diagrams that expose somatic inheritance.

His sculptural installation The Hands of Gods—a sensory archive of food, refusal, and embodied memory—made its European debut at Art Basel 2025. His work has been supported by a Metal Culture UK Artist Residency (2021–22) and presented internationally through exhibitions, screenings, and research-led platforms. Batambuze’s practice remains deliberately unresolved, resisting spectacle in order to surface the tensions between care, governance, inheritance, and refusal.

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