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7:00 PM
blackqueer images, fugitive kinships
Lecture|E.N. Mirembe
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WIELS, Brussels
- Language EN
- Price Free admission
In their reading, E.N. Mirembe focuses on how Black queer photography has long produced ways of seeing and belonging that exceed the terms through which citizenship is usually understood. The reading considers photography as a social and aesthetic practice through which forms of kinship, intimacy, fugitivity, and collective life are imagined. Moving across artistic, literary, and archival materials, the talk reflects on how Black queer image-making unsettles fixed ideas of nation and identity proposing instead more porous and relational forms of being together. Through the framework of aesthetic kinship, E.N. Mirembe is interested in how images create communities of feeling that persist across geohistories.
E.N. Mirembe
Curator, writer, and resident at Morpho Antwerp
E.N. Mirembe currently holds a curatorial residency at Morpho Antwerp, initiated by the Goethe-Institut Brussels on the theme of curating in times of democratic crisis. Their practice attends to literary and visual cultures through a Black Studies lens. E.N. Mirembe has edited and published three books including, ‘The Geography of Fixed Things: Eastern African Artists from the Arak Collection’ (2025). They curated 'In Transit Under Another Sky' at the Herbert Art Gallery and Museum as part of the 2025 Coventry Biennial, ‘Sonic Commons’ (Nairobi, 2026), ‘The Geography of Fixed Things’ (Shenzhen, 2025), ‘Njabala: An Elegy’ (Kampala, 2024), and ‘at the limit of dream’ (Brussels, 2023). Their writing is published in Camera Austria, Artforum, Contemporary And, Africa is a Country, African Arguments, and others.
