Elias Mung’ora: Song of Lawino at Montague Contemporary marks his New York debut, weaving archival mission records, family photos, and fragments of Okot p’Bitek’s 1966 poem into layered paintings. Rooted in his Presbyterian upbringing in Nyeri, Kenya, the work meditates on colonial legacy, identity, and cultural inheritance, confronting tensions between indigenous traditions and imposed belief systems with quiet intensity.
