Save the date: Adjoa Armah, (or less than living more than less than living more than).

Adjoa Armah,

<◯><◯> (or less than living more than less than living more than).

Opening: October 14th,
7 – 10 [removed]

Exhibition continues throughout December 31st

fluent is pleased to present <◯><◯>(or less than living more than less than living more than), a commissioned solo exhibition by Adjoa Armah where she uses the exhibition space to explore an interest in how we may develop a black historiography in relation with the temporal consciousness of sand. The proposed display invites the audience to engage with questions that have arisen out of long–term research into how materials witness life, how they can support the (re)telling of historical events, and how the reality of a place is equally defined by what happens there and what is imposed upon it from [removed];
The work centres around a recycled glass hourglass produced in collaboration with artist Sel Kofiga and glassblower Michael Tetteh using sand from Cape Three Points, Ghana. Known as the place on land closest to “nowhere”, which is a location at sea known as Null Island (0°N 0°E), Cape Three Points has 4 European built forts within a 20 km radius and is a site from which we can reflect on the history of European presence on the African continent. The central object of the hourglass is put into correspondence with various objects, images, and responses from thinkers invited by Armah as part of a living form of research.

Adjoa Armah is an artist, educator, writer and editor with a background in design anthropology. Her practice is concerned with narrative, the archive, pedagogy, black ontology and spatial consciousness.
She is founder of Saman Archive, a gathering of photographic negatives encountered across Ghana, through which she explores new models of institution building grounded in Akan temporalities and West African technologies of social and historical mediation. She is editor and research fellow at Afterall, where she is responsible for the Paul Mellon Centre-funded digital research project ‘Black Atlantic Museum’ and the ‘Afterall Art School’, platform.
Armah is also a practice-led DPhil researcher in Fine Art at Ruskin School of Art at the University of Oxford with a project provisionally titled; ‘Meeting Saman: On Study with Narrative posture and -graphy in/as Archival Methodology’.