In The Hair Shop, the artist has filmed interviews with black women and men in Belfast, Liverpool and Manchester speaking about the personal and cultural significance of the hair shop. The women build a picture of the hair salon as a place that goes beyond personal care and becomes a significant site of community. Kalungi and her interviewees describe the hair salon as a beacon of culture providing care, community and conversation that ranges from practical advice to politics.

Roots in the Sky is the first institutional curatorial project by British-Nigerian artist Tunji Adeniyi-Jones. This pivotal exhibition brings together new and recent works by ten contemporary artists whose practices span the United States, Europe, and West Africa. Taking Adeniyi-Jones’s own practice as a point of departure - rich with West African heritage, fable, and ceremonial symbolism - the exhibition explores the cultural pluralism and layered identities that define the Black diaspora. Painting, sculpture, and drawing are employed in equal measure, with figuration and abstraction operating as shared visual languages to explore themes of mythology, community, lineage, and transformation. The works on view are informed by both personal narrative and collective memory. As novelist Bernardine Evaristo writes, “We consist of multiples… descended as we are in Britain from fifty-four African countries and over thirty Caribbean countries… I believe in pluralism versus essentialism, always and all ways.” This ethos underpins Roots in the Sky, inviting artists to reflect on travel, hybridity, and the diasporic experience as a source of both creative expression and cultural logic. Boundless interconnectivity—at times latent, at times boldly asserted—runs through the exhibition. The featured artists engage with questions of belonging and identity, resisting reductive narratives in favour of nuance, contradiction, and multiplicity. Their practices are further anchored by literary influences from James Baldwin, Chinua Achebe, and Teju Cole—writers who, like the artists, trace and reimagine diasporic pathways through acts of cultural reckoning and creative resistance. Tunji Adeniyi-Jones · Alvaro Barrington · Jade de Montserrat · Ivy Kalungi · Joy Labinjo · Sahara Longe · Nengi Omuku · Elena Njoabuzia Onwochei-Garcia · Tschabalala Self · Shaqúelle Whyte

The suspended monitor shows footage taken by the artist’s father mapping his journey through the Kalerwe neighbourhood of Kampala city in Uganda. Echoes In Transit Sculpture Installation This Video is part of the echoes In Transit Sculpture Installation.

The video elements incorporate archival news footage (Associated Press) from 1966 reporting on the construction of a hydroelectric power station near Lake Victoria, Uganda, and celebrations for the King of Buganda during a time of political and social turmoil. This Video is part of the echoes In Transit Sculpture Installation