Lusaka Contemporary Art Centre is pleased to announce an upcoming solo exhibition by artist Daudi Yves titled Risk and Relevance: A Non-Linear Passage, co-curated by Daudi Yves and Bruno Milambo, taking place from July 7–31, 2026.

Risk and Relevance: A Non-Linear Passage invites audiences to reflect on visibility, displacement, inherited systems, and what it means to negotiate belonging within societies where acceptance can remain conditional.

The work reflects on how many legal and existential conditions remain rooted in colonial systems that defined migration and settlement, barring a freedom of movement. It seeks to challenge authoritarian structure and valuation of human life based on diplomatic status, questioning how if political independence reshaped national leadership across the continent, why were so many structures of access, documentation, and belonging never fully dismantled? Why do they continue to influence everyday life today?

Through painting, mixed media, and photographic processes, Daudi Yves explores the lived realities of immigrant and refugee communities within host countries, examining how identity, belonging, and recognition continue to be shaped by inherited systems of exclusion.

Situating this context in such a pivotal year where important implementations towards improved national development such as immigration reforms, strongly relates policy advocation to the human condition, placing art at the center of the dialogue. Drawing from cross-border lived experience, Yves considers how displaced communities can contribute socioeconomic, and cultural context to a nation, forming relations and linguistic understandings with their immediate environments, and presents a body of work that probes the marginalization of both the historical and cultural memory of these communities.

Opening 07 July at The Lusaka Contemporary Art Centre.