Valerie Asiimwe Amani

Lives and works in London, UK

Artist statement

Amani's work is often informed by the grey boundaries between the political, domestic and the intimate - the ways in which image sharing and language has shifted our perception of each other and reality. I am interested in the aesthetics of the truth, how the truth can subjectively reconstruct and regenerate itself through systems of belief; and what consequence these systems have on virtual and physical bodies within and out of community - how do we continue to exist amongst fractured realities of past and present. Often incorporating folklore, history and conversation into my work, I am driven by the counter narrative - considering the implications of displacement, mistranslation and the complexities of existing in multiplicity - what exists in the cracks, the unsaid and implied in forming our sense of belonging. Working across multiple mediums, I approach the materials and output not only in an artistic sense, but also in a metaphysical sense in the medium's capacity to hold a narrative or the 'spirit' of the work.

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