Afriart Gallery presents three artists from Uganda at Art Paris 2023: Mona Taha, Sanaa Gateja, and Richard Atugonza. Coming from two generations of art making, their work provides a snapshot into the country’s diverse visual language, artistic mediation, and subjectivities.

Mona Taha, born in Uganda in 1988 to an Egyptian father and a Rwandese mother, is an artist and mother of two boys. She primarily works with charcoal on medium to large-scale paper. Her drawings are figurative, often self-portraits depicting herself in intimate yet mundane poses.

Sanaa Gateja is a mixed-media artist and jewelry designer widely known for his signature incorporation of recycled man-made waste materials in his practice, particularly his pioneering fashioning of beads from discarded paper, which earned him the nickname ‘The Bead King’ in Uganda.

Born in 1994 in Fort Portal, Uganda, Richard Atugonza is a portrait sculptor. His current body of work encompasses a selection of portraits depicting people in his life whom he sculpts in ubiquitous materials such as sawdust, dried grass, and charcoal – all of them being waste materials found within his environment.

Art Paris 2023 happens between March 30 to April 2 at Grand Palais Éphémère, Paris.

Source: afriartgallery