Mbugua’s long-standing series Back to the Future (2018-2024), explores the “age of life”, childhood and child-rearing practices, youth and adolescence. The series is inspired by the artist’s kinship with his niece and nephews, whose contemporary life cycles mirrors the artist’s own upbringing in Nairobi.
Extract – Lessons in Selfhood by Sabo Kpade, a curator, writer and researcher who specialises in the art and cultures of Africa and its diaspora.
2023 – We are All Spinning round the Same Sun (act 1)
2023 – We are All Spinning round the Same Sun (act 2)
2024 – Lessons in Selfhood (selection)
2018 – 2019
