Godwin Champs Namuyimba: Inner Circle

Galerie Marguo is pleased to present Inner Circles, Ugandan artist Godwin Champs Namuyimba’s first solo exhibition with the gallery and in France, on view from 30 June - 27 August 2022. 

Namuyimba’s practice explores the ways that identity is constructed in a globalized and hyper-networked world, particularly within a postcolonial African context. In this new body of work, the artist appears to critically and equivocally grapple with the notion of Black Excellence – a conflictual term that on the one hand champions and celebrates the achievements and contributions of Black communities in a racialized society, while signifying, on the other, the disproportionate pressure Black individuals face to ‘work twice as hard to get half as far’.