Liz Kobusinge
b.
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link to LAPA Residency Liz Kobusinge is a self-taught artist based in Kampala, Uganda, whose work and practice grew as a way to cope with declining mental health. She engages with art to cope, making work that is situated within the earnest expression of states of mind, mining her experiences with anxiety and depression to inform multidisciplinary work that explores mental health as illustrated by the interior worlds of primarily Black women.

Recently she has been exploring new processes adapted from Sheila Nakitende’s (Ugandan artist) paper production technique, using handmade bark cloth as material. Kobusinge positions her art as a performance of memory, in which she explores hand-making bark cloth paper as a ritual of remembrance; layering handmade dye, ink and video to mimic the way our skin holds and disperses memory. Work from this material's investigation is a multi-textural reflection of the multi-layered human experience, particularly in the context of familial bonds.

Part of her interest is in observing the degradation of the materials she produces, to ponder the materiality of memory set against the ephemera of living. Kobusinge learned to make bark cloth paper in 2019 during a depressive episode and the ritual and repetition of making this fragile memory fabric has been therapeutic in these times. This evolving practice primarily concerns the tenets of self-hood and autonomy as the artist documents herself, and others, ‘making peace’ as a way to live.











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