October 2022

Jackie Karuti is an artist based in Nairobi, Kenya. Her practice employs the process of drawing, moving images and performance to generate thought & her work is founded on ideas around knowledge production & the depths of possibility enabled by radical imagination. She was the recipient of the Henrike Grohs Award in 2020 and the Follow Fluxus-After Fluxus scholarship in 2021 which supported her solo exhibition at the Nassauischer Kunstverein Wiesbaden in Germany. Other projects that respond to her practice include In the Case of Books (2013-2015), programming the Out Film Festival-Nairobi (2016-2018) and her online workspace; I’ve been working on some MAGIC. Her debut monograph; Jackie Karuti: Notes Movement Method by Mousse Publishing will be released in early 2022.

Image details:
Title: Shapeshifting and the Impossibility of Weathered Wood, 2021
Electric motor, drawings, assorted objects & sculptural forms
Image credit: Christian Lauer
Courtesy of the artist