The Artist’s Voice: Leilah Babirye with Ruth Erickson

"Reusing materials is important to me, as a person who comes from a background where the LGBTQ community is looked at as trash still today. As an artist, I find beauty in using found materials to showcase and reclaim my community." -Leilah Babirye

- 6PM join us for Art-Making After Dark: Leilah Babirye.
- 7PM join for a talk by Babirye and ICA’s Barbara Lee Chief Curator Ruth Erickson
- Afterwards we'll have a drink and light bite in the ICA's waterfront Wine + Coffee Bar

The event is FREE but tickets must be purchased here.

About Babirye: Bicycle chains, gears, and tire tubes are some of the unexpected elements in Leilah Babirye’s latest sculptures at the ICA. Her art, celebrating a one-of-a-kind queer wedding, depicts attendees of this special life event through ceramic and carved wood sculptures. Babirye and ICA’s Barbara Lee Chief Curator Ruth Erickson reflect on the artist’s unique practice that proudly reclaims space, identity, and community through art. This program explores Babirye’s many creative influences from African sculpture to found object art and addresses cultural and political systems of oppression embedded in Uganda, including the Anti-Homosexuality Act (2014/2023) that endangers and criminalizes many lives.