Artists at Home: Immy Mali

Artists at Home: Immy Mali

As part of our Artist at Home series, Open Source Gallery board member Emma Lewis conducted an interview with Immy Mali, who previously exhibited at Open Source.

Immy Mali lives and works in Kampala Uganda. Using a variety of media including, text, video, sound, sculpture, installation, animation, her work attempts to unpack the complexities and entanglements of memory and existence in a neo/postcolonial Uganda. Notions of presence and absence, personal memories of childhood growing up juxtaposed with current personal and collective experiences of existence also influence her work. In 2013, she obtained a Bachelors degree in Industrial and Fine Arts from Margaret Trowell School of Industrial and Fine arts, Makerere University, Kampala. She is an alumnus of the Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten in Amsterdam, Netherlands (2018-2019). Mali has participated in exhibitions, residencies and workshops in various countries including Kenya, India, Ethiopia, Denmark, Germany, USA, South Africa, (5th Asíko art school) Mozambique, Angola, and Uganda. Her work has been published in art magazines including the Africa arts journal 2019.

Emma Lewis works for the nonprofit organization Le Korsa, an affiliated organization of the Josef and Anni Albers Foundation, leading their initiative to open an exhibition space and arts education center in rural Senegal.  She practiced law for many years, was Executive Director of the Center for Italian Modern Art, and is a former trustee of the Albers Foundation, in which she remains active.

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