Acaye Kerunen

Acaye Kerunen is a Ugandan writer, poet, actress, performance artist, installation artist, and art activist.She is the founding director of KEBU forum.She was the first female Ugandan artist to exhibit under the first ever Ugandan pavilion at the 59th International Art Exhibition of Biennale di Venezia (2022) Quotes 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. Acaye Kerunen(b.1981, Uganda) on Her Solo Exhibition: “Neena Aan Uthii” at Pace Gallery, London 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. Acaye Kerunen(b.1981, Uganda) on Her Solo Exhibition: “Neena Aan Uthii” at Pace Gallery, London 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(b.1981, Uganda) on Her Solo Exhibition: “Neena Aan Uthii” at Pace Gallery, London 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. Acaye Kerunen(b.1981, Uganda) on Her Solo Exhibition: “Neena Aan Uthii” at Pace Gallery, London 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 Acaye Kerunen(b.1981, Uganda) on Her Solo Exhibition: “Neena Aan Uthii” at Pace Gallery, London External links Category: living people Category:Women authors from Uganda Category:Artists from Uganda Category:Poets from Uganda Category:Actresses from Uganda