Renée Akitelek Mboya (Kenya)

Renée Akitelek Mboya is a writer, curator and filmmaker who mostly works on biographical and historical narratives. She is interested in images, and the ways in which they are produced has come to play a crucial role as an expression of white paranoia and aesthetic idioms about race and racial violence. She seeks to understand how images are used to reinforce the institutionalised narratives about the racialised body as a constant threat.

During her residency at Malt AIR, Renée will be involved with the East Asia Company’s Thai and Ghanian collections at the Siamesisk Samling Museum. The purpose of her project is to confront the persevering and pervasive colonial violence against indigenous peoples around the world and to identify the racist assumptions that exist in post-colonial historical narratives.