Diagrammatic Practice


Diagrammatic Practice

Materials: Variable

Format: Diagrammatic prints, installations, public pedagogy, moving image, and social circulation.

A diagrammatic practice studying how sytems become culture — and culture becomes structure.

These works began as teaching tools—and became evidence.

These works began as teaching tools—and became evidence.

Developed through years of interviews, community dialogue, archival research, and observation across Black and South Asian social life, the diagrams study how hierarchy settles into everyday experience—through ritual, migration, religion, domestic life, bureaucracy, labor, and inherited behavior.

Some resemble forensic maps.
Others compress social tension into visual form.

Across prints, installations, moving image, classrooms, and digital space, the work studies how power naturalizes itself—becoming aesthetic, spiritual, bureaucratic, and ordinary.

The diagrams move between gallery walls and public life, treating circulation not as promotion, but as part of the form itself.

The practice continues to evolve across installation, moving image, pedagogy, and sculptural systems.

Installation view of Jonah Batambuze's featuring five mounted diagrammatic prints arranged on a gallery wall.  The works maps themes including; anti-Blackness, diaspora wars, the intersections between caste and anti-Blackness, and systems of power.


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