Godwin Champs Namuyimba – Intangible Presences: Images Bridging Lives

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Primo Marella Gallery Milano is pleased to present Godwin Champs Namuyimba’s solo show: INTANGIBLE PRESENCES: IMAGES BRIDGING LIVES opening on Thursday, October 9th at 6 pm.

Born in 1989 in Masaka, Uganda, Godwin Champs Namuyimba is considered one of the most compelling voices of the new generation of African contemporary painters. After completing his BFA at Kyambogo University in Kampala in 2017, he rapidly gained international attention, exhibiting in Europe, the United States, and Asia, with works now held in important private and public collections, including the Mudam - Musée d'Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean in Luxembourg.

Namuyimba's practice revolves around the human figure as a means to question identity, individuality, and the social constructs shaping everyday life in postcolonial Africa. His portraits, often monumental and saturated with vivid, contrasting colors, suspend his subjects in spaces that are at once familiar and dreamlike. Faces, gestures, and postures are rendered with both raw intensity and delicate intimacy, offering the viewer a powerful narrative that moves beyond the canvas.

With "Intangible Presences: Images Bridging Lives", Namuyimba reflects on the dual origin of his imagery-drawn both from found photographs circulating online and from lived, personal experience. Each painting becomes a bridge between these two dimensions: the virtual and the real, inspiration and actuality. The figures that emerge on canvas are not only products of imagination, but also witnesses to the tangible realities of postcolonial Africa. In this way, the artist's work turns images into narratives-where creativity transforms fragments of life into powerful, shared presences.