Exploring mental health with personal art chronicle

Painting

“Caged”, is an acrylics on canvas painting by Teta Chel and how she became a prisoner of her own mind. PHOTO | ANDREW I. KAZIBWE 

With debate on mental health no longer a hidden concern, Rwanda visual artist Michelin Teta alias Teta Chel, 22 is leading her audience through personal experience, uniquely changing the usual health campaign narrative.

Dubbed Chronicles of a Hopeless Dreamer, following the recent lift on the ban to events due to the Covid-19 pandemic, this exhibition sets a unique record of not only being one of the very few events ushering in the public event culture, but also makes Teta the first female visual Artist to stage a solo exhibition since the clampdown on events.