Jamestown, Accra

Ibrahim Mahama

Jamestown, Accra, 2013Price on Request
Details
Material
drapery of coal sacks
Description
Human-crafted. AI-refined.

The artwork depicts a scene of vibrant and colorful fishing boats docked at a harbor. The composition features a dominant palette of warm hues, including reds, oranges, and yellows, along with a variety of textures and patterns covering the vessels. The subject matter showcases the bustling activity and livelihood of a coastal community, with people visible on the boats. The artistic style appears to be a realistic, documentary-like approach, capturing the gritty and weathered character of the fishing boats and their surroundings. The context suggests this piece may reflect the importance of the fishing industry and maritime traditions within a particular cultural or geographical setting. ...

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Ibrahim Mahama
Artist
Ibrahim Mahama
B.1987, Ghanaian

Exploring themes of globalisation, economic exchange and migration, Ibrahim Mahama creates monumental installations made of materials defined by urban environments. The Ghanian artist is best known for his stitched together with jute bags, made with help of his collaborators who are usually intranational, local and urban immigrants, and echoing West African traditional use of fabrics. Mahama then drapes the stitched bags over buildings, thereby engaging with the politics of physical spaces by creating a continuous challenge and imposition. The jute bags, having been produced in Asia, imported to Ghana to transport cacao beans and then repurposed to package coffee, rice and charcoal, before finally being exported to Europe and the Americas, represent the very structure of the capitalist economy. Treating the materials as forensic evidence of market and human labour, Mahama traces the complex relationship between the economy and the local and international working class. The multifaceted physicality and metaphorical connotations of the artist’s materials, which also include hammers, shoe boxes, heels and needles, show how objects absorb and bear the ramifications of globalised capitalism and the social divide it produces. ...

Ibrahim Mahama: Artworks
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