“Akutia” videos

Below are videos related to the exhibition Akutia: Blindfolding the Sun and the Poetics of Peace (A Retrospective of Agyeman Ossei ‘Dota’).

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Virtual tour video of ‘Akutia: Blindfolding the Sun and the Poetics of Peace (A Retrospective of Agyeman Ossei ‘Dota’)’, the second major retrospective exhibition organised by SCCA Tamale and Red Clay. 4th September, 2020 – 7th March, 2021

“Consider the lilies how they grow: they toil not, they spin not; and yet I say unto you, that Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.” Luke 12:27 (KJV) 2020 Water Lilies Installation 457.2cm x 1219.2cm x 20in 

Nested inside the formalist, open-roof, architecture of at Red Clay — screened on both of it’s long sides by perforated brick walls, and built to home Ibrahim Mahama’s permanent installation ‘Parliament of Ghosts’– this temporary curatorial intervention allegorises Dota’s Biblical muse. The spectacle of night-blooming water lillies in the rectangular pond at Red Clay has many layers: it functions as something to contemplate; as an immersive space in which to sit, pray, and/or meditate in privacy; creates a social place for convivial encounters; serves as a breeding site for non-human ecologies and agency (swipe to the end to view the Frog who takes an afternoon dip in the pond); and so on…

Behind the scenes of the production and construction process for the exhibition “Akutia: Blindfolding the Sun and the Poetics of Peace (A Retrospective of Agyeman Ossei ‘Dota’)”. The process begun from 5th August and lasted until the 3rd September, 2020. The exhibition opened at SCCA Tamale on 4th September, 2020 and at Red Clay on 5th September, 2020. The show will run until 7th March, 2021.

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