Notions of presence and absence, juxtaposed with personal and collective experiences of existence in shifting spaces influence Immy's work.
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Immy Mali uses a variety of media including, text, drawing, video, sound, sculpture, animation, her work attempts to unpack the complexities and entanglements of memory as well as virtuality of the self and the other. Notions of presence and absence, juxtaposed with personal and collective experiences of existence in shifting spaces also influence her work. The project Letters to my childhood (2017-2021) accords her the duality to engage with her past and present simultaneously.
Together with her sister, they co-founded Iraa-the granary an experimental artist’s kitchen geared towards exploring the building of archival/memory systems of artists’ practices in ways that are relevant to the Ugandan/ East African context. In 2013, she obtained her BA in Industrial and Fine Arts from Margaret Trowell School of Industrial and Fine arts, Makerere University, Kampala. She is an alumnus of the Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten in Amsterdam, Netherlands (2018-2019) , The Asiko art school 2015 and has participated in exhibitions, residencies and workshops online and in various countries including Kenya, Netherlands, India, Ethiopia, Denmark, Germany, USA, South Africa, Mozambique, Angola, and Uganda. Her work has been published in art magazines including the Africa arts journal 2019. She is currently a Prince Claus Carec cycle 5 Fellowship Awardee for the year 2026.
