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The voice of a British man narrates a film produced in the 1950’s describing the moment when Nairobi transitions from a small town into a city. This was made by the Colonial Film Unit (CFU); a ...
Rijksakademie Open Studios: 2025

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 ...
Zoo studies

Link: https://vimeo.com/1051940691/3188580de4?share=copy
Former WIELS resident Jackie Karuti brings her latest work to AFFILIATE, a space in ...
Model II: construction

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, ...
Rijksakademie Open Studios: 2024

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 ...
BODY MACHINE LOCATION

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. ...
DIVISION: Before Line/ After Image

Jackie Karuti was the main prize winner of the 2020 Henrike Grohs Art Award. This book is published as part of the award, with support from the Goethe-Institut and Grohs family. ...
Notes Movement Method | Monograph

Installed at Aerial, Bergen as part of the durational symposium The Only lasting Truth is Change, 2021 convened by (BEK) Bergen Centre for Electronic Arts, Norway.
This work is presented through ...
How Clouds are Formed | Installation

Shapeshifting & the Impossibility of Weathered Wood
Nassauischer Kunstverein Wiesbaden, Germany
23. September 2021 - 19. December 2021
Shapeshifting & the Impossibility of ...
Shapeshifting & the Impossibility of Weathered Wood

Through the hands of the Engineer and the eyes of the Chemist, the function and usefulness of both the projector and microscope are tested in two video experiments. The ...
The Engineer | The Chemist

How Clouds are Formed: a set of 10 drawings
Medium: Graphite on rag paper
Dimensions: 57.5 x 77.5 cm
How Clouds are Formed (Drawings)

Turbulence presents a spectre of an image, in this case a spinning chair without a seat. It suggests an act of transformation or imminent overthrowal experienced through what could be ...
How Clouds are Formed (Video)

A voyeur witnesses the shapeshifting of a wooden structure from animal, to human to forces of nature. A dream sequence employing magical realism assembled from footage gathered while ...
Autopsy

FOSSILS is a site-specific performance that takes place in an old house situated on the fringes of the Nairobi National Park. It frames the performance as a house tour through an explorers lens with ...
Fossils

The Planets is a series of snapshots marking events highlighting milestones in exploration and innovation. They exalt man while also speaking of a history of technology and exploitation at a time of ...