Letaru

Awardee

Country

Uganda

Letaru advocates for the environment through artistic research.

Themes
Environment / Climate emergency
Racial justice
Indigenous rights
Reexamining history
Others
Disciplines
Artistic Research
Video Art
Visual Art
Awards
SEED Award 2022
Supported by
British Council

Profile

Letaru is a Ugandan multidisciplinary visual and conceptual artist based in Kampala. A social scientist by training, she studied in an interdisciplinary Bachelor's of Social Sciences programme, majoring in Humanitarian Law (2014) and received a Masters degree in International Development in 2019 at Sciences Po Paris, France. Her work has been exhibited as part of Collage Broadly Defined, and Playing to the Gallery at Afriart Gallery Kampala in 2020. Her artistic practice reexamines history, comments on this post-colonial moment and responds to the socio - political events currently in African/Africana communities and discourse.