Not everything that survives is written down.

Some things survive in recipes.

Some survive in family photographs.

Some survive in the way a hand hesitates before reaching across a table.

Sometimes the absence is the archive.

My work follows these inheritances as they move through food, film, archives, and public life.

I am a Ugandan-American interdisciplinary artist and cultural architect working at the intersection of Black × Brown culture.

Across film, installation, writing, and public gatherings, I work with archives both official and embodied. My projects often begin with something small—a photograph found in a suitcase, a gesture learned without explanation, a story carried across generations—and expand outward into questions of inheritance, relation, and the lives people learn before they have language for them.

This evolving body of work forms part of Reconstruction Studies: an ongoing artistic inquiry into how histories are carried, transmitted, and remade. Through encounter, ritual, and collective reflection, the work creates spaces where inherited stories can be examined, challenged, and reassembled.

Batambuze is the founder of The BlindianProject, a living archive exploring Black × Brown histories, diasporic memory, and the inheritances that move between communities. His work moves between research and atmosphere, combining archival material, speculative objects, moving image, and embodied participation to create spaces where histories can be encountered collectively rather than explained from a distance.

His sculptural installation The Hands of Gods—a sensory archive of food, refusal, and embodied memory—made its European debut during Art Basel 2025.

This evolving body of work forms part of Reconstruction Studies.

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