Rwandan visual artist King Christian Dusabe is expected in the US for a duo art exhibition slated for November 26, in Houston, Texas (United States). Dubbed ‘Echoes of Memories’, the exhibition will showcase new paintings and drawings by Dusabe King Christian from Rwanda and Ozoemena Nzubechukwu from Nigeria. Echoes of Memories was organised by Mitochondria Gallery, an art gallery that specialises in artworks from emerging and established artists from Africa and the African diaspora, with a mission to educate and expand the public awareness of contemporary African art. In this series, Dusabe and Ozoemena will present works that explore levels of episodic and procedural memories. Episodic memories relate to the recollection of first-hand experience while procedural memories are actions that are learned over time and are performed without conscious awareness. According to Dusabe's statement, his practice inspects multifaceted layers of social identity, personal, and familial homages through the immaculate study of ephemeral compositions of discontinuous memories, while contemplating the intimate impact familial backgrounds had on him. The statement added, His dexterity was propelled to center around the need to gap the bridge between emotional states and memories, and the want to demystify the purpose of nostalgia as the impetus behind his work either as proof for an elected artificial construct that overwrites the present with the past, or as a transfigured perspective that is allegorically precursive of catharsis.” Ozoemena explores a shared spiritual experience from the perspective of Catholicism while Dusabe approaches memory from a familial and individual perspective. The exhibition kicks off on November 26, till December 17, in Houston, Texas at the Mitochondria Gallery.
