Ewuresi Archer’s Complicated Love Letter to Ghana
Before the exhibition A Love Letter With Teeth, Ewuresi Archer travelled to Busua, a fishing village in the Western Region of Ghana, where she spent an eight-week residency with Berj Gallery producing the new body of work. Her initial intention was to create works that would celebrate Ghana, a love letter to a country she […]
Sanjo Lawal: Artsman the Traveler
Sanjo Lawal works between photography, creative editing, and digital painting. He renders skin in near-charcoal tones so the colors around it can sing harder. Born in Lagos in 1997 and raised in Ijebu Ode, he draws on Yoruba ceremony, the Ojude Oba festival, and the layered textiles of his mother’s wardrobe. His Artsman the Traveler […]
Cultural Alphabet
Cultural Alphabet is creative director Dani Larbi’s own life mapped onto twenty-six letters. Each one stands in for a piece of Afro-European experience — the inheritance of being among the first generation born in Europe to African parents. Coexistence, contrast, and fusion become words; words become images; images become collectible cards. Larbi treats the project […]