
Ayo – Modern Day Griots & tapped train conversations (2020)
Ayo’s work consists of extensive research projects that shapeshift into film, sculpture and performance. The artist’s practice is based on a desire to seek out counter narratives, and to explore both pleasurable as well as uncomfortable ways of re-telling histories. In her practice, Ayo tackles issues such as politicisation of vulnerable bodies, violence against women and hidden problematic colonial histories. Her recent projects explore intangible forms of cultural heritage and informal knowledge production held by unofficial bodies.

Ayo – Pregnant Clouds Pissing Rain (2019)
Background
Ayo (1983) is a Ugandan artist, researcher and filmmaker currently based in The Netherlands. Ayo holds an MA in Fine Art from the Piet Zwart Institute, Rotterdam. In 2020 she was awarded the Willem De Kooning Master Research Award, and in 2021 she was nominated for the Guido Huysmans Young African Filmmaker Award. Recent exhibitions include Material Context at Het Archief, Rotterdam, and Possessed at the European Media Art Festival, Osnabrück, Germany.
Select your favorite works
Cours Belsunce (2021)

Odero & The weeping totem (2021)
