An exhibition opening at Huset in Aalborg, bringing together three artists who work from different places: Aalborg, Denmark, and Accra and Tamale in Ghana. Through silkscreen, satire and photographic prints, they explore how art can be political, asking who has access, who gets heard, and what a place carries with it as it changes.
- Sandro Masai, born in Brazil and based in Aalborg, works with Afrofuturism, decolonisation and spirituality. For this show he presents a series of silkscreen prints that grow out of his action paintings and are dedicated to the orisha of the Yoruba tradition.
- Bright Ackwerh, based in Kumasi, works with painting, illustration and street art, known for his #abonsamcartoons series. His works on paper ask what it means to be an artist from Kumasi when the body that makes the work cannot move as freely as the ideas in it, using visa papers, receipts and empty passports as material.
- Ernest Ofori Sackitey, based in Tamale in northern Ghana, works with photography, documentation and storytelling. His layered cyanotypes, anthotypes and photographs of factories set Aalborg's transformation from industrial town to culture and knowledge city against developments back home in Ghana.
Lise Grauenkær curates the exhibition. The opening includes refreshments and an informal artist talk in English with the three artists.
