Art without borders: Regional masterpieces.

This is circle art gallery’s inaugural exhibition of 2025 titled ‘New Visions’. Exhibition offers a cross-section of work in photography, digital collage, painting, mixed media and textile arts, inviting viewers into introspective moments and extending that to broader relational concerns. Rigorous and reverential in their working methods, these artists stretch their approaches to media and narrative, engaging with a collection of cares such as; grief, ritual, memory, interdependence, lineage, nationhood, and self-presentation.
Painters Fetlework Tadesse, Sandra Wauye, and Birhane Worede reanimate portraiture and figuration with their considered and layered approaches. There is a quiet reflectiveness in the subjects inhabiting Birhane's interiors, a crowded, dreamlike essence in Sandra’s paintings and the geometric, allegorical pairings in Fetlework's compositions hint of passion and conflicted feelings. These painters disrupt what sometimes reads as a saturated genre. Similarly, Ethel Aanyu and Liberatha Alibalio extend the language of photography and include alternative processes for their final compositions.
Aanyu begins by staging self-portraits and working with sitters to make photographs and proceeds to incorporate digital collage techniques to mediate moments of introspection while Alibalio taps into traditions of quilting, assembling family photographs from the 1980s and 1990s alongside other intentionally collected ephemera from her grandmother’s home in Kagera, Tanzania. Equally refreshing in their mixed media approach are Pamela Enyonu’s refined and delicate collages on canvas consisting of paper, pen, acrylic and gold leaf. Here, Enyonu sets out to unfurl visual narratives that explore Uganda’s histories and mythologies in this contemporary moment.
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