Jute sacks go on artistic exhibition in Kumasi

26 year old Ibrahim Mahama is of a new generation of artists that is redefining what art can be, how it is exhibited and how it interrogates our relationships with ourselves and our surroundings.

Whether kente, adinkra, or wax print, cloth has long been a semiotic, value-transferring art form in Ghana.

West African born, internationally acclaimed artists, like El Anatsui and Yinka Shonibare have carried on and reinvented this tradition by using bottle tops to take on the form of Kente or wax print to usurp Western historical and aesthetic narratives.

Ibrahim goes a step further by incorporating the provenance, narrative and context of the cloths in his work (...)

[Read Kofi Adu Domfeh's full article published in Modern Ghana]