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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
All images courtesy of the artist ©Jackie ...
Printmaking: Etching & Lithography
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
Electronic Theater, 2022 Aichi Triennale, Japan Venue: Library (3rd ...
Electronic Theater | Aichi Triennale, Japan
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
All images courtesy of the artist ©Jackie ...
Printmaking: Copper-plate aquatint etchings
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
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Slides for sun & machine projection
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)
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The Fuse | 1.5 litres
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
Black Birds
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 ...
The Planets, Chapter 32
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There Are Worlds Out There They Never Told You About
Seer is a collaborative performance piece by Gor Soudan & Jackie Karuti. Gor invites Karuti to incorporate objects from his installation, More Deader and Outer Things between Earth and H(e)aven, ...
Seer
In The Case of Books is a project where different people get to travel to different library spaces and engage in the process of dusting and talking about the books they find there. It ...
In The Case of Books: Nairobi + Kampala
