Sarah Nakiito holds a degree in Migration Studies, with a particular focus on colonialism, ethnicity, and identity. She works as an artist and designer at the intersection of textiles, fibers, costume, installation, performance, and video. Her practice explores how bodies and materials can carry, embody, and renegotiate stories of heritage, memory, and resistance.

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Nakiito’s artistic practice is interdisciplinary and often research-based. She investigates colonial traces and the presence of the Black female body in history, a presence that both makes visible and challenges the gaze of power. By combining textile gestures, bodily actions, and cinematic expressions, she creates performative spaces where new forms of belonging and storytelling can emerge.

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In recent years, she has worked on projects such as BLACK FEMALE FORM, exploring representation, western medical histories and decolonial healing practices, the body, and resistance, and SECOND SIN, which examines the olubugo barkcloth as an extension of the body and its memory.

 

The practice is interdisciplinary and moves between traditional craft techniques, spatial expressions such as installation, scent, sound and ritual gesture, the personal is intertwined with historical, political and social layers.