Diagram Studies

A methodology within Reconstruction Studies


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 tools for understanding.

I started making diagrams to visualise complex ideas—for myself and the community I was in conversation with.

Drawing from interviews, community dialogue, archival research, and observation, they trace relationships between power and everyday life.

They are a way of thinking in public rather than presenting conclusions. I share them with the community, where questions, challenges and feedback continue to shape the work. That circulation from community to classroom, gallery, publication and back again is part of the form itself.

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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