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Gallery 1957, Ghana is proud to announce its group exhibition In and Out of Time, curated by British writer and curator Ekow Eshun, opening on 16 September 2023 in Accra. The exhibition runs parallel to a solo show of Ghanaian artist-in-residence Yaw Owusu, curated by Nigerian curator Azu Nwagbogu, as well as a presentation of artist Priscilla Kennedy, winner of the Gallery鈥檚 Yaa Asantewaa Art Prize 2022. 

Drawing from the Ghanaian concept of Sankofa鈥� to return to the past in order to move forward 鈥� the exhibition explores African cultural notions of non-linear time and brings together both established and emerging contemporary artists from across Africa and the diaspora. The exhibition gathers new artworks from a range of mediums, including painting, collage and moving image. The show introduces artists who are new to Gallery 1957鈥檚 roster, such as Alexandria Smith, Emma Prempeh, Julian Knxx, Kenturah Davis, Lyle Ashton Harris, Todd Gray, Tunji Adeniyi-Jones, and Zanele Muholi as well as returning artists Amoako Boafo, Arthur Timothy, Godfried Donkor, Kwesi Botchway and Tiffanie Delune.

Interrogating concepts of time, African diasporic identities and collective memory, the works on show question linear narratives of progress and modernity which have historically categorised people of African origin as less developed than citizens of the West. Instead, the works on show draw on African cultural notions of non-linear time as well as the concept of circular time presented by American scholar Michelle Wright, who takes inspiration from quantum physics to re-envision time as a circle, offering it as a place of 鈥榖lack possibility,  where past, present, collective memory and speculative future merge into one.