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Emma Wolukau-Wanambwa
Onderzoeker beeldende kunst / Researcher Fine Art
13.02.12 – 31.12.12
emma [dot] wolukau-wanambwa [at] janvaneyck [dot] nl
www.wolukau-wanambwa.net
Of Houses and Death
Among most of the settled peoples of Uganda, it is a cultural imperative for men to build houses on family land. It is equally crucial for these men to be buried there—for by custom, these peoples bury their dead in the front and back gardens of (and sometimes even inside or underneath) houses on the land where they and their relatives continue to live. Thus the house and the burial plot are mutually reinforcing: the legacy and legitimacy of male heirs—and their claim to power within the patriarchy—is achieved only through this fusion of property rights and collective remembrance.
Of Houses and Death is an artistic investigation into the changing relationship between the land, the building and the body in contemporary Uganda, where as a result of civil conflict, urbanisation and the marketisation of land, these long-established building and burial practices are now under intense pressure. Social and economic change is fundamentally altering the practice, concept and meaning of land for the peoples of this region, and hence their ways of living and remembering. The project aims to trace this deep shift in signification.
