This unforgettable picture of slum life was first exhibited by Daudi Karungi’s Afriart Gallery in 2011. Two women, one just from nursing her baby and the other hanging clothes on a line, are engaged in some kind of uncomfortable talk, and one of them seems to recoil as if stung by what has been said. In the other woman’s face there seems to be what could best be described as venom, giving the picture its defining theme: malice, if it could be painted. The painting remained in Kyeyune’s possession for more than fourteen years after it was exhibited, buried somewhere in his house, only to be resurrected in 2024 when this collector starting inquiring into its whereabouts. By that time it had lost a bit of its lustre, so Kyeyune retouched it and came close to making it anew. It hangs in the collector’s living room, among the artworks he would not give up under pain of death.
