Nansamba II Leilah Babirye Blue Glazed Ceramic Head Washington DC USA // WASHINGTON, District of Columbia — A large blue glazed ceramic head adorned with braided bicycle tire inner tubes, Leilah Babirye's 2021 sculpture "Nansamba II from the Kuchu Ngabi (Antelope) Clan," anchors a museum exhibition space. The Ugandan-born artist constructs her totemic figures using a synthesis of traditional ceramics and found objects to reclaim the precolonial history of the Buganda kingdom. By incorporating the term "kuchu"—meaning queer—and the feminizing "Na-" prefix into her naming conventions, Babirye sy

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