In Transit Under Another Sky

Curated by Rosie Olang (KE) & Mirembe (UG)

Inspired by Gaston Bachelard’s The Poetics of Space, In Transit Under Another Sky explores the idea of the house and home as poetic, psychological, and political spaces. Moving between cities and borders, the exhibition responds to questions of belonging, memory, and movement, anchoring itself in intimacy and impermanence.

First shown in Nairobi and Kampala, the exhibition now travels to London and Coventry, deepening its dialogue on transit, diaspora, and spatial identity.

Curators: Rosie Olang’  Odhiambo and E.N. Mirembe

Exhibition Opening: May 21, 2025

With a performance by Tobi Adebajo & petals

Having had its first iterations in Kampala, and then Nairobi, as part of the Art Exchange: Moving Image programme, in transit under another sky arrives in London as part of the UK-Kenya Season 2025.

The exhibition invokes the fugitive nature of art and artists working in-between spaces, considering physical geographies as well as other marginal identities and what emerges from the positionality of transience. We take the idea of a 'moving image' as a provocation within and beyond form, to affect; moved to feel, or moved to a feeling. Nomadic images that move between spaces, traverse borders, images, shadows and traces that are quite literally in transit. The act of transit being both contentious and generative.

Suspended between a present moment, one anticipated, or one revisited, we are gesturing towards a transitory temporality in which speculation and expectation inform our freedom-seeking movements. In the space between arrival and departure, we occupy and welcome purgatory with relief, considering stretching towards as an approach, an attempt, and a visioning.

Featuring ARTIST:

1. Larry Achiampong 

2. Mohamed Almusibli

3. Kabi Kimari

4. Mogoi

5. Neema Ngelime

6. SCARLETMOTIFF

7. Emma Wolukau-Wanambwa

in transit under another sky was conceived as part of the Art Exchange: Moving Image programme. Art Exchange: Moving image is a cross-cultural curatorial professional development and exhibition programme for early to mid-career visual arts curators from Africa and South Asia taking place from 2023-2025. The programme supports curators selected from open calls to work with and respond to moving image works from their contexts and from the British Council Visual Arts Collection.

The programme is managed by LUX, the UK agency for the support and promotion of artists working with the moving image on behalf of the British Council. The Africa programme is delivered in partnership with Guest Artists Space Foundation, Nigeria.