ERIA NSUBUGA “SANE”
BLACK FACE, WHITE MASKS
Afriart Gallery
Afriart Gallery, Block 56, Kenneth Dale Drive, Off Kira Road – Kamwokya
P.O.BOX 5961, Kampala
Until September 25, 2015.
Welcome Back, Go Back Down There, 2015.
About:
Sane seeks to speak to the inner self of the viewer. He tries to make his paintings mirrors into the viewers’ consciences. He waddles though what seems to him like the social and political quagmire of his time like the aloof, taciturn observer, unaffected by all around him. Unsurprisingly, some pundits have likened his persona to that of Eria’s graceful but nonchalant and visually distant ‘alter ego’, the Giraffe. None the less, he is strongly aware of the pariah status in which people of his trade find themselves, and willingly, sometimes mischievously delves into social and political criticism. But he is ultimately a lover of nature, and people and looks to a world to come, a spiritually enlightened world. He believes that whatever we do here in the physical realm has a spiritual bearing on our future wellbeing in the world to come.
Mix It Like Jenner, 2015.
The Stair Down, 2015.
Girl of all seasons, 2015.
“My quest to find visual truth, energy, and meaning has led me into all sorts of worlds from the political to the metaphysical. And still, it eludes me; the satisfaction that one feels when they know that their work here on earth has earned them a place in this world and the next. And the place in the next world, I have found cannot be found just by doing any work on earth, the work must have spiritual value.” (text gallery)
http://afriartgallery.org/3dgallery1-2/