Canon Griffin Rumanzi: Mad Eye of History Without Blinking

The Nairobi Contemporary Art Institute (NCAI) presents Looking into the Mad Eye of History Without Blinking, a solo exhibition by Ugandan artist Canon Griffin Rumanzi, curated by Trevor Mukholi. Opening on 11 September 2025 and running until 2 November 2025, the exhibition confronts the turbulent and fragmented narratives of Uganda’s past and their ongoing echoes in the present.

Through digital collage and archival intervention, Griffin layers colonial records, state symbols, family portraits, and everyday images to create a visual language of fracture, one that refuses easy containment or simplified stories. His work challenges us to look directly, without blinking, at the contradictions of history and the unresolved complexities that shape our collective memory.

Griffin is also the co-founder of History in Progress Uganda (HIP Uganda), a long-term archival project dedicated to digitizing and reinterpreting Uganda’s visual past. His practice, exhibited both regionally and internationally, continues to spark urgent conversations about how African histories are remembered, contested, and retold.

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