The solo exhibition 'OBUMU (UNITY), by sculptor and contemporary artist Leilah Babirye from Uganda, will be held at Yorkshire Sculpture Park, the first sculpture park in the United Kingdom.
The artist melds the issues surrounding her identity and labor through her work as a Ugandan woman and a lesbian.
She left her home country to move to New York in 2015 after being publicly sidelined by local newspapers and was granted asylum in 2018.
The artist weaves, shaves, welds, burns, and polishes debris collected on the streets of New York.
She intentionally uses discarded materials, which come from 'abasiyazi', a Ugandan term for disdain for homosexuals.
The word means the shell of the sugarcane, or waste that is thrown away, and the artist found the image of minorities in it.
Leila Babirye's solo exhibition, which melds the history of the working class, the identity of artists, and socio-cultural issues, will be held until September 8.
Sayart / Nao Yim, yimnao@naver.com
