“Promised Lands” is an 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 collectively entitled ‘Uganda in Black and White’ (2011-2014).It features the voices of the artist, her uncle Patrick Wanambwa andTheodor Hertzka, a 19th century Austro-Hungarian economist, who was one of many Europeans who tried to establish a utopian settlement (“Freeland”) in East Africa. It also makes 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.In reflecting on the relationship(s) between representation, power,projection and possession, the artist’s own role is called into question.
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