Enter the ‘Chorus of Beings’: Show casts a spotlight on Kenya’s invisible prisons

At the One Off Art Gallery, prison uniforms dominate the canvases in Chorus of Beings, the new exhibition by artists Newton Eshivachi and Paul Njihia. The striped outfits appear again and again, draped over protestors, mourners and ordinary citizens navigating scenes that feel unmistakably Kenyan. They are not merely costumes. They are metaphors.

For Eshivachi, the recurring uniforms symbolise the many invisible systems that shape modern life.