Katasumbika

Katasumbika is an installation that reproduces a banana plantation, with mounds of earth, banana plants, calabashes of banana wine and drawings of body parts. “Katasumbika”, a Nande expression meaning ‘that which cannot be lifted’, meditates on a care instruction used to preserve plant species, protect burial sites and preserve the memory of an object or space and the relationship people have with it. The project also includes drawings and two videos with voice-over.

Through the banana plant, the work Katasumbika becomes a means of questioning and reflecting on what can or cannot be ‘displaced’ from a human being. It is also a process of reflection on the banana tree as the bearer and preserver of a people's traditions and culture. It is also a process of reflection on the desire for power expressed through land grabbing, which has led to the destruction of social life, the mass displacement of populations. Katasumbika is also a personal process of reconnecting with my culture and my origins through all the research carried out in Uganda.

In the end, Katasumbika is a set of lines of connection, of reconnection, of life cycles generated by drawings, banana trees and banana beer installed on a mound of earth.