Promised Lands

PROMISED LANDS is a fragmentary, essayistic meditation on (among other things) art, fact, fiction, memory, rights to land, place, and displacement that marks the culmination of a substantial body of work by the late artist Emma Wolukau-Wanambwa collectively entitled “Uganda in Black and White.” Making reference to the thousands of European refugees who found sanctuary in Africa during World War II and to the violent ongoing realities of internal and external displacement, it reflects on the relationships between representation, power, projection, and possession.