Jessica Karuhanga: ground and cover me
by Warehouse9
Jessica Karuhanga
Presented as part of QALEIDOSCOPE QUEER FILM AND PERFORMANCE ON TOUR 2024
Artist talk @ 19:30 followed by performance @ 20:30
ground and cover me engages with the physical and figurative contours of the institutional space. Karuhanga enacts gradual movements that are intuitive and deliberate responses to the walls, windows and ground. This piece is a choreographic rupture to institutional spaces that otherwise insist upon Black Queer people’s disappearance.
Bio
Jessica Karuhanga is a first-generation Canadian artist of British-Ugandan heritage whose work addresses the cultural politics of identity and Black diasporic concerns through lens-based technologies, writing, drawing and performances. She explores individual and collective concerns of Black subjectivity and embodiment through her practice.
Karuhanga has exhibited her work at the Kitchener-Waterloo Art Gallery (2023), Mitchell Art Gallery (Edmonton, 2022), the Robert McLaughlin Gallery (Oshawa, 2021), Varley Art Gallery (Markham, 2020), The Bentway (Toronto, 2019) and Nuit Blanche (Toronto, 2018). She has performed at Remai Modern (Saskatoon, 2023), Pallas Art Projects (Dublin, IE, 2022), WNDX Festival of Moving Image (Winnipeg, 2020), Long Winter (Toronto, 2019), Royal Ontario Museum (Toronto, 2018), Cooper Cole (Toronto, 2017), Goldsmiths (London, UK, 2017) and DoubleDouble Land (Toronto, 2016). C Magazine, BlackFlash, Susan Hobbs Gallery, Blackwood Gallery and Founderie Darling have published Karuhanga’s writing. She has been featured in AGO’s Artist Spotlight, i-D, DAZED, Visual Aids, Border Crossings, Toronto Star, CBC Arts, ESSE, and the Globe and Mail. She earned her BFA from Western University and MFA from the University of Victoria. She is an Assistant Professor in Studio Art in the Visual Arts Department at Western University (London, ON, Canada).
www.jessicakaruhanga.net
Location
Warehouse9Rosenlunds Allé 5, Baghuset
2720 København