Neighbourhood Watch 5

About the work

Part of Mung'ora's ongoing investigation of Nairobi's urban fabric, this richly layered canvas combines acrylic with transfers and mixed media drawn from his own photography of the city. Figures and architecture surface through worn, whitewashed-looking grounds, so that the painting reads as both a street scene and a record of the traces left by previous lives. The work sits within his wider concern with the fragmentation of urban space and who has access to it.