This exhibition brings together the diverse practices of four artists, each working within their own distinct mediums yet unified by a shared exploration of the forces of fission, fusion, and creative convergence. The exhibition explores how fragmentation and unity, separation and synthesis, work together to create dynamic intersections of art, culture, and identity.
Confluence invites viewers to engage with the process of mixology, not just as a blending of mediums and materials, but as a metaphor for the blending of cultures, identities, and ideas. Each artist’s work stands as a unique fragment of a larger whole, reflecting the transformative power of convergence that Kampala sets the scene for. Through their unique practices, these artists offer a multi-dimensional exploration of how fragmentation and synthesis can be an expressive building block for creativity and revealing the layers of human experience.
In this exhibition, the viewers are invited to witness and participate in the alchemical process of art-making via different materials (handmade paper, photo print, silk), where boundaries dissolve, and new forms and meanings emerge from the intersections of art, life, and culture.
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Artists : Manuela Lara, Gloria Kiconco, Charity Atukunda and Elisadig Janka
Artist : ELSADIG JANKA
Elsadig Janka
0 The Path
الطريق
و قال لى القرب الذى تعرفه مسافة, والبعد الذى تعرفه مسافة, وأنا القريب البعيد بلا مسافة
محمد بن عبد الجبار النفري
The nearness which thou knowest is distance, and the farness which thou knowest is distance: I am the Near and the Far without distance
Muhammad ibn ‘Abdi ‘l-Jabbar al-Niffari: The Mawaqif and Mukhatabat
90 x 60 cm, 2016
(1/10)
Elsadig Janka
1 Eternity and Perpetuity
الأزل و الأبد
خمرة كأسها ألست قديما/ و حديثا عقلي وكل حواسي / شرب الكون فهو سكران منها فتراه معربدا بالناس
A wine in its chalice made of though ancientness, and recently its chalice made of my mind and all of my senses. The universe is drunken of it and visibly ecstatic with people.
abdul ghani al nabulsi
90 x 60 cm, 2016
(1/10)
Elsadig Janka
2 The Adoration
قيل عني جن وجدا ليتهم ذاقوا جنوني/ صار مني الفتق رتقا والتقت يائي بسيني/ فيميني قي شمالي وشمالي في يميني/ أسمع الأنوار في وجدي أرى وقع اللحون
عوض الكريم موسى
They said I have gone crazy with love, if only they tasted my insanity. My wound has been stitched up, and my yaa litter has joined my siin to compose the prophets name alphabet. My right hand became my left and my left hand became my right. In my love I can hear the lights, I can see the melodies.
Awad Alkareem Musa
90 x 60 cm, 2016
(1/10)
Elsadig Janka
3 Magic Carpet
بساط الريح
طلوع الشمس يهب شميم خمر صاف/ ليس من الحياة أن تكون غير ثمل/ فأصخ إلى بوح قيثارة دونما اوتار / و قف لتراقب من فوق هذا الحريق
جلال الدين الرومي/ الرباعيات
The sun coming up brings clear wine-air. Being sober is not living. Listen to the longing of a stringless harp. Stand watch over this burning.
Quartains of Rumi: unseen rain
90 x 60 cm, 2016
(1/10)
Elsadig Janka
4 The Spiritual Walk (el isra)
الأسراء
وسركم في ضميري والقلب طور التجلي/فالموت فيه حياتي وفي حياتي قتلي
ابن الفارض
Your secret is in the depths of my consciousness
My heart is the mountain where God manifested Himself
In my death resides true life, and in my life resides my true demise.
Ibn Al-Farid
120 x 80 cm, 2016
(1/10)
Elsadig Janka
5 The Cloning
الاستنساخ
لقد صار قلبى قابلاً كل صورة فمرعىً لغزلانٍ، ودير لرهبانِ
وبيتٌ لأوثانٍ، وكعبة طائفٍ * وألواح توراةٍ، ومصحف قرآن
أدين بدين الحب أنَّى توجهتْ * ركائبه، فالحب ديني وإيماني
بن عربي
My heart has become capable of every form:
It is a pasture for gazelles and a convent for Christian monks
And a temple for idols and the pilgrim’s Ka‘bah
And the tables of the Torah and the book of the Qur’an.
I follow the religion of Love: whatever way Love’s camels take,
That is my religion and my faith.
ines 13-15 from Ghazal 11 in Tarjuman al-ashwaq by Muhyi al-Din ibn al-‘Arabi (1164-1240)
90 x 60 cm, 2016
(1/10)
Elsadig Janka
6 The Sky
السماء
أين هي القدم الجديرة بالتنزه في حديقة أو العين التي تستحق التطلع في الشجر؟ أرني رجلا عازما أن ينقذق في النار
جلال الدين الرومي
Where is a foot worthy to walk a garden, or an eye that deserves to look at trees?
Show me a man willing to be thrown in the fire.
Quartains of Rumi: unseen rain
90 x 60 cm, 2016
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Elsadig Janka
7 The Revelation
الكشف
كوكب منزه في علاك/ سحرك غريب وشخصك بعيد/ أو كان قريب أنوارو آخذة بدون سلوك/ كيف يجهلوك و على الجمال العادي راحوا يمثلوك/ ولو بادلوك عين الحقيقة وبالبصيرة تأملوك / بالنور أو بالنار أو بقدر ما صاغ الخيال ما عادلوك لو أنصفوك. محمد بشير عتيق
A sacred celestial body in your elevation
Endowed with a strange charm and a distant entity
Even when it is near it shines in a captivating wireless lights
Your lightening shines in the very depth of the darkest night
How dare they not recognizing you
The kept trying to compare you with casual beauty
And if they exchange with you true gaze
Or contemplated you with the heart eyes
They will never equalize you with light nor fire or the shrewdest imagination creations.
90 x 60 cm, 2016
(1/10)
Elsadig Janka
8 Al Hadra
الحضرة
عطفة منكم ايها السمان بحرك الفياض يروي للظمآن/ نهلة منكم تشمل الأخوان/ تفنهم حساً عن شهود الناس قريب الله بن ابي صالح/ الشيخ قريب الله
Al hadrah
Oh Samman a breath of your mercifulness, your overflowing river quenches the parched .
120 x 80 cm, 2016
(1/10)
Elsadig Janka
9 The Friendship
الصداقة
الصديق هو أنت لكنه آخر
أرسطو
The friendship
A friend is a second self.
Aristotle
120 x 80 cm, 2016
(1/10)
Elsadig Janka
10 The Step
الخطوة
فليس للأين منك أين وليس أين بغير أنت/ أنت الذي حزت كل أين بنحو ” لا أين” فأين أنت.
الحلاج
“Where” with You has nowhere
And there is nowhere where You are
Illusion with You has no illusion
Can illusion know where You are?
You are the One who gathers every “where”
to nowhere, so where are You?
Hallaj
80 x 120 cm, 2016
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Elsadig Janka
11 The Spectre
الطيف
لا يراها غيرنا من أحد كل طرف بالسوى منجرح/ هذه لا هذه أنت فلا أنت فأعرف عين هذا الشبح/ فرحي يا فرحي يا فرحي خمرة المحبوب ملء القدح
عبد الغني النابلسي
The spectre
It is invisible to anyone but us. For their eyes are preoccupied with others. It is and it is not. It is you and not you. You must recognize the very essence of this ghost. My rapture, my joy , oh my rejoice my chalice is full of my beloved whine.
Abdul ghani al nabulsi
90 x 60 cm, 2016
(1/10)
Elsadig Janka
12 The Dervish
الدرويش
فيرميه الغرام بسهم نبل وتكسيه المحبة ثوب ذب/ فيصبح حائرا في الحب مثلي ينادي يا عيوني ساعديني
ابن الفارض
The dervish
Love will shoot him with an arrow. Love will wrap him in a garment of humility. Then he will become as perplexed with love as me. He will shout to his eyes “my eyes please help me”
true demise.
Ibn Al-Farid
120 x 80 cm, 2016
(1/10)
Elsadig Janka
13 The Blessing
البركة
أحمدك اللهم كثيرا فقليلي قد صار كثيرا/ وأقام الضيف بأكنافي وأجيرا ما عاد أجيرا / إذا صار الجسم بلا جسم والقلب إلى القلب بشيرا
عوض الكريم موسي
The blessing
Oh lord I praise you for my meager lot has become a blentitude. The guest has welled in my entity. and I have been freed from my hired toil. As my body became bodyless while the heart has become to other hearts.
Awad Alkareem Musa
120 x 80 cm, 2016
(1/10)
Elsadig Janka
14 Al Samad
الصمد
لقد تعبنا يا صديقي ولكن لا يمكن الاستلقاء أثناء المعركة.
Al samad
Comrade oh my comrade we are knackered. but nobody can lay down amidst the battle.
Sudanese revolution martyer abd El Azim
90 x 60 cm, 2016
(1/10)
Artist : MANUELA LARA
Manuela Lara
María Antonia
Región Buenaventura Colombie/Colombia
Giclée print on a 200gsm Hahnemühle 100% α-cellulose paper using UltraChrome Inks Size of paper: 50 x 72 cm (19 11/16” x 28 11/32”)
Size of image: 43 x 61 cm (17” x 24”)
(1/3)
Manuela Lara
Shirly
Región Buenaventura Colombie/Colombia
Giclée print on a 200gsm Hahnemühle 100% α-cellulose paper using UltraChrome Inks Size of paper: 50 x 72 cm (19 11/16” x 28 11/32”)
Size of image: 43 x 61 cm (17” x 24”)
(1/3)
Manuela Lara
Sonia
Región Buenaventura Colombie/Colombia
Giclée print on a 200gsm Hahnemühle 100% α-cellulose paper using UltraChrome Inks Size of paper: 50 x 72 cm (19 11/16” x 28 11/32”)
Size of image: 43 x 61 cm (17” x 24”)
(1/3)
Manuela Lara
Yolanda
Región Buenaventura Colombie/Colombia
Giclée print on a 200gsm Hahnemühle 100% α-cellulose paper using UltraChrome Inks Size of paper: 50 x 72 cm (19 11/16” x 28 11/32”)
Size of image: 43 x 61 cm (17” x 24”)
(1/3)
Manuela Lara
Camila
Región La Guajira Colombie/Colombia
Giclée print on a 200gsm Hahnemühle 100% α-cellulose paper using UltraChrome Inks Size of paper: 50 x 72 cm (19 11/16” x 28 11/32”)
Size of image: 43 x 61 cm (17” x 24”)
(1/3)
Manuela Lara
Carmen
Región La Guajira Colombie/Colombia
Giclée print on a 200gsm Hahnemühle 100% α-cellulose paper using UltraChrome Inks Size of paper: 50 x 72 cm (19 11/16” x 28 11/32”)
Size of image: 43 x 61 cm (17” x 24”)
(1/3)
Manuela Lara
Jhassay
Región La Guajira Colombie/Colombia
Giclée print on a 200gsm Hahnemühle 100% α-cellulose paper using UltraChrome Inks Size of paper: 50 x 72 cm (19 11/16” x 28 11/32”)
Size of image: 43 x 61 cm (17” x 24”)
(1/3)
Manuela Lara
Katherine
Región La Guajira Colombie/Colombia
Giclée print on a 200gsm Hahnemühle 100% α-cellulose paper using UltraChrome Inks Size of paper: 50 x 72 cm (19 11/16” x 28 11/32”)
Size of image: 43 x 61 cm (17” x 24”)
(1/3)
Manuela Lara
Helena
Región La Guajira Colombie/Colombia
Giclée print on a 200gsm Hahnemühle 100% α-cellulose paper using UltraChrome Inks Size of paper: 50 x 72 cm (19 11/16” x 28 11/32”)
Size of image: 43 x 61 cm (17” x 24”)
(1/3)
Manuela Lara
Aracely
Région Sutatausa Colombie/Colombia
Giclée print on a 200gsm Hahnemühle 100% α-cellulose paper using UltraChrome Inks Size of paper: 50 x 72 cm (19 11/16” x 28 11/32”)
Size of image: 43 x 61 cm (17” x 24”)
(1/3)
Manuela Lara
Liliana
Région Sutatausa Colombie/Colombia
Giclée print on a 200gsm Hahnemühle 100% α-cellulose paper using UltraChrome Inks Size of paper: 50 x 72 cm (19 11/16” x 28 11/32”)
Size of image: 43 x 61 cm (17” x 24”)
(1/3)
Manuela Lara
Luz Maria
Région Sutatausa Colombie/Colombia
Giclée print on a 200gsm Hahnemühle 100% α-cellulose paper using UltraChrome Inks Size of paper: 50 x 72 cm (19 11/16” x 28 11/32”)
Size of image: 43 x 61 cm (17” x 24”)
(1/3)
Artist : GLORIA KICONCO
Gloria Kiconco
West – Those Who Wander
Fan zine
18.5 x 12cm (open 18.5 x24.5)
Barkcloth paper, ink, pressed flowers, teabag paper
800 USD/3,200,000 Ugx
Image: Borderlands Art/Martin Kharumwa
Gloria Kiconco
East – Those in Exile
Accordion zine
18x12cm (open 18x120cm)
Barkcloth paper, newspaper, tissue paper, collage
800 USD/3,200,000 Ugx
Image: Borderlands Art/Martin Kharumwa
Artist : CHARITY ATUKUNDA
Charity Atukunda
Joy and Sorry
70cm x 156 cm
Mica stone, charcoal glue
650 USD/2,470,000 Ugx
Charity Atukunda
Projection
42 x 59.4 cm
Scanned Illustrations and Digital Collage
250 USD/950,000 Ugx
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Charity Atukunda
Untitled
70cm x 156 cm
Wooden mingling stick with illustration in ink and acrylic paint
450 USD/1,710,000 Ugx
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