Place of Cool Waters
Awuor Onyango
10/11/2022
OVER Journal
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Awuor Onyango reflects on the visual landscape and myth-making of contemporary Nairobi
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Awuor Onyango reflects on the visual landscape and myth-making of contemporary Nairobi
This is about photography, image and myth-making, and a city―the city you were born in, grew up in. The city you have lived in. Imagine that you look up photos of this city, maybe for nostalgic reasons, maybe for an artistic reference, maybe because you are having a conversation with someone who claims to have visited this city once but their experience seems so foreign to you that you pull out your phone so you can confirm that their city is really the city. Could there be another Nairobi where the drivers are polite? A Nairobi where the men are not absolute creeps? Where the people sound too friendly and are loose with their compliments?...Read the full article in the printed issue. Get OVER Journal 3
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About
Awuor Onyango
Awuor Onyango (They/Them) is a Nairobi-based writer and multidisciplinary artist trained in English & French laws, Fine Art & Film. Their practice is concerned with (re)claiming public space erased/appropriated and/or disallowed to people considered black, femme and other, whether the space is intellectual, physical, in memory or historical. Through writing, design, photography, film, multisensorial installation and fine art they explores issues of access, transgression, shame, anthropophagy and discomfort of the (continental) black femme. Their multidisciplinary approach is rooted in the ephemeral, interactive and lived art traditions of East Africa, in which the seeking is supreme and the art object merely evidence of the seeking.
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Image above: Zebra in the Nairobi National Park with the Nairobi skyline behind.
