The raw materials with which
Ibrahim Mahama (b. Ghana, 1987) creates his large, site-specific installations are jute sacks used for transporting cocoa, coffee or coal. Made in India or Bangladesh, they are however stamped with 鈥淧roduced in Ghana.鈥 By using these sacks, bearing the vestiges of the wanderings of products and materials, Mahama elucidates how capital and power move to and from Africa, interchanging significance, value and statue.