Jackie Karuti

Karuti's work departs from drawing whereby the moving & projected image is considered & used as a way to generate thought. Her practice is founded on ideas around looking, image construction, knowledge production & the depths of possibility enabled by radical imagination. 

While in residency, her studio work will locate the Amsterdam Zoo (ARTIS) as a site of intervention as well as a period in pre-independence Kenya when instructional films were screened using mobile cinemas. The focus is not so much the films but the tedious logistics, instructions and machinery involved.

While seemingly different, both of these research points intersect when the work dives into a formalist exploration towards image construction through the dimensions, duration, volume & acoustics occupied in the projection, motion & weight of an image. They not only present a model for looking but also how drawing as a form mutates.