Keeping Time
Keeping Time is a group exhibition which significantly brings together both international and Ghana-based artists from the African diaspora who explore notions of Blackness, being, and time.
By presenting artworks that are both dream-like and speculative, abstract and figurative, the exhibition questions and disrupts our sense of being in the world through African diasporic perceptions of time.
The exhibition is presented as a sequel to Gallery 1957鈥檚 monumental 2023 group show, In and Out of Time curated by Ghanaian-British writer and curator, and is a highlight of Accra Cultural Week, taking place from the 24th - 28th October 2024: a series of interconnected, intimate and public events serving to encourage deeper engagement with Ghana's vibrant contemporary art scene and spearheaded by Gallery 1957.
The show introduces artists who are exhibiting with Gallery 1957 for the first time, such as Okiki Akinfe, ruby onyinyechi amanze, Alvaro Barrington, Winston Branch, Kenwyn Crichlow, Kimathi Donkor, Ibrahim El-Salahi, Lyle Ashton Harris, Andrew Pierre Hart, Che Lovelace, Sola Olulode, Sikelela Owen, Ravelle Pillay, Elias Sime, Lina Iris Viktor and Michaela Yearwood-Dan, as well as returning artists Gideon Appah, Rita Mawuena Benissan, Amoako Boafo, Phoebe Boswell, Godfried Donkor, Modupeola Fadugba, Julianknxx, Arthur Timothy, and Alberta Whittle.
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Keeping Time is a group exhibition which significantly brings together both international and Ghana-based artists from the African diaspora who explore notions of Blackness, being, and time.
By presenting artworks that are both dream-like and speculative, abstract and figurative, the exhibition questions and disrupts our sense of being in the world through African diasporic perceptions of time.
The exhibition is presented as a sequel to Gallery 1957鈥檚 monumental 2023 group show, In and Out of Time curated by Ghanaian-British writer and curator, and is a highlight of Accra Cultural Week, taking place from the 24th - 28th October 2024: a series of interconnected, intimate and public events serving to encourage deeper engagement with Ghana's vibrant contemporary art scene and spearheaded by Gallery 1957.
The show introduces artists who are exhibiting with Gallery 1957 for the first time, such as Okiki Akinfe, ruby onyinyechi amanze, Alvaro Barrington, Winston Branch, Kenwyn Crichlow, Kimathi Donkor, Ibrahim El-Salahi, Lyle Ashton Harris, Andrew Pierre Hart, Che Lovelace, Sola Olulode, Sikelela Owen, Ravelle Pillay, Elias Sime, Lina Iris Viktor and Michaela Yearwood-Dan, as well as returning artists Gideon Appah, Rita Mawuena Benissan, Amoako Boafo, Phoebe Boswell, Godfried Donkor, Modupeola Fadugba, Julianknxx, Arthur Timothy, and Alberta Whittle.
Artists on show
- Alberta Whittle
- Alvaro Barrington
- Amoako Boafo
- Andrew Pierre Hart
- Arthur Timothy
- Che Lovelace
- Elias Sime
- Gideon Appah
- Godfried Donkor
- Ibrahim El Salahi
- JulianKnxx
- Kenwyn Crichlow
- Kimathi Donkor
- Lina Iris Viktor
- Lyle Ashton Harris
- Michaela Yearwood-Dan
- Modupeola Fadugba
- Okiki Akinfe
- Phoebe Boswell
- Ravélle Pillay
- Rita Mawuena Benissan
- Ruby Onyinyechi Amanze
- S鈥媜la Olulode
- Sikelela Owen
- Winston Branch
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