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I was never who the art world of Uganda expected to be here now in this way on the world stage. Their eyes and support were elsewhere, to other artists whom they believed “better represented ‘them’: yet here I am anyway.

— Acaye Kerunen

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This exhibition invites a new kind of experience, a contemporary and purposeful contact through presence alongside performance and music with viewers being invited to feel free.

I am Here /Present. I aim to manifest my artistic vision and inspire others to create, curate, and exhibit similar points of view to mine despite a lot of ill will, and attempts at misrepresentation, especially from the place I call home.

Color as an evolving radiance also allows me to repurpose my love for chemistry as a subject I took for a while in school until I dropped it due to sexual harassment by my teacher

The materials I choose and the contexts of their making, now take center stage globally in different and similar iterations. This is through smart ecological practices, co-existence with nature, respecting time through the natural cycles of life, and not industrially rushing things in the name of development at the expense of the universe which is literally on fire right now.

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