Akosua Viktoria Adu-Sanyah (pronounced: a-koss-ya) is a German-Ghanaian artist based in Zurich. At the heart of her practice are images under pressure: suspended between emergence and decay, visibility and concealment, intimacy and rupture. Physical labor, material instability and historical residues become integral components of the works themselves.
A temporary analog color darkroom will be established in the Arboretum. Throughout the exhibition, the artist will repeatedly create large-format photographic works by hand.
The works are based on a single photograph taken at the “Door of No Return” at Elmina Castle in Ghana – a former slave trading fortress.
Reduced to horizon, sea and sky, the image becomes the starting point for a repeated photographic process involving contact printing, manual development, washing and drying.
Each print is created under constantly shifting material conditions, and its final form remains unpredictable.
Over the course of the exhibition, a continuous sequence of works will gradually emerge around the structure.
Location
Arboretum
General-Guisan-Quai 31, 8002 Zürich
Visit
Wed, Sat, Sun · 1–5 p.m.
except on 27 June until 4 p.m.
Processes:
June 7 · from 5 p.m.
June 13 · from 4 p.m.
July 5 · from 2 p.m.
Please note the awareness concept.