Letaru Seed Awards recipient

Letaru Profile
Andromeda 2017 25cm x 25cm Oil 24ct gold on paper

Themes

  • Environment/Climate emergency
  • Racial justice
  • Indigenous rights
  • Reexamining history

Disciplines

  • Artistic Research
  • Video Art
  • Visual Art

Country

  • Uganda
Letaru is a Ugandan multidisciplinary visual and conceptual artist based in Kampala. A social scientist by training, she studied in an interdisciplinary Bachelor's of Social Sciences programme, majoring in Humanitarian Law (2014) and received a Masters degree in International Development in 2019 at Sciences Po Paris, France. Her work has been exhibited as part of Collage Broadly Defined, and Playing to the Gallery at Afriart Gallery Kampala in 2020. Her artistic practice reexamines history, comments on this post-colonial moment and responds to the socio - political events currently in African/Africana communities and discourse.
WEBSITE
The Earth Remains Forever 2020