The voice of a British man narrates a film produced in the 1950’s describing the moment when Nairobi transitioned from a small town into a city. This was made by the Colonial Film Unit (CFU); a mobile cinema outfit established by the British colonial government. Its task was to produce instructional or educational films that were also ...

The Amsterdam Zoo (ARTIS) becomes a site of intervention in this work that considers images in an emancipatory way. It engages drawing, printmaking and cinema as forms to think with as well as experiments around image construction. The quest(ion) of modernity is dissected by looking at the tension that comes with the need for progress and the ...

        Link: https://vimeo.com/1051940691/3188580de4?share=copy Former WIELS resident Jackie Karuti brings her latest work to AFFILIATE, a space in the city centre where alumni of the WIELS Residency Programme present their projects. Location: AFFILIATE, rue du Jardin des Olives 3 Olivetenhof, ...

This work was presented at the Rijksakademie open studios. 30 May - 2 June 2024. It was preceded by the film program; The Journey of the Hyena convened at the Rijksakademie in April, 2024.   The apparatus establishing & dismantling itself I Link: https://vimeo.com/965524351/35736d8c2d?share=copy Looking at animals is used ...

  This solo exhibition is part of an ongoing moving image project that departs from Fukeiron; the concept of landscape theory asserting that the visible landscape around us is an expression of dominant political power. It was developed by early Japanese filmmakers where the landscape was cast as evidence of real or imagined crimes and ...

    March 29 - April 27, 2023 | Goethe Institut, Nairobi The exhibition departs from the method of assembly in Jackie Karuti’s self-titled publication released in 2022. It elaborates on durational practice, how to think about movement and space without rigid lengths & coordinates, how to calculate space using local ...