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ONE AGREEMENT
fffriedrich
2020
a due exhibition with
Larry Bonćhaka, Samuel Baah Kortey
curated byLorenzo Graf
Documentation film by Jia Jun Nicholas Toh
One Agreement presented new productions by Larry Bonćhaka and Samuel Baah Kortey, then MFA students at KNUST in Kumasi. The artists developed a site-specific environment gravitating around colonial history, power structures and emancipatory potentials embedded in syncretic Christianity within the context of West Africa.
The exhibition was paired with a public programme: a virtual panel discussion live-screened at fffriedrich with the artist and curator Khanyisile Mbongwa (SA), chief curator of the first Stellenbosch Triennale, the artist and curator Kwasi Ohene-Ayeh (GH), co-curator of the 12th edition of Bamako Encounters: Biennale of African Photography, and the artists.
Samuel Baah Kortey (*1994, Asesewa) lives and works between Ghana and Germany. He studied painting at Städelschule in Frankfurt and at KNUST in Kumasi. He has shown in the 2020 Stellenbosch Triennial and the 2022 Documenta 15 with his collectives Asafo Black and blaxTARLINES Kumasi collective, respectively. He was one of the 2023 Villa Romana fellows in Florence, Italy.
Larry Kojo Adorkor aka Bonćhaka (*1994, Ghana) is an artist whose practice revolves around a critical interest in identity politics, trade, material culture, mass production and architecture. He is a member of the Asafo Black Collective, who recently participated in the Stellenbosch Triennale.