The artwork “ The Desert is The Absence of The Forest”, 2022
Barkcloth paper and Raffia 180 x 124cm featured in the exhibition “The Forest and Desert School Revisited” in November 2022 in Nairobi Kenya.
It brought together works of art that explore African and Arabidentity as hybrid and distinct articulations of the poetic entanglement with the landscape. It is Inspired by the literary school that emerged in the 1960s known as The Jungle and DesertSchool/Madrasat al-Ghaba wa al-Sahra, The Bush and Desert School, The School of Ebony and Palm or The Forest and Desert School which was seen as a movement voicing an original identity within Sudanese poetry and an historical and intellectualmovement. In particular, being situated in similar climatic zones proposes to engage with identity in a way that transcends fixed notions of where people come from based on geopolitics but more
influenced by the relationship of social and ecological structures.
Multi-disciplinary artist living and working in Uganda Kampala.
