Nana Oforiatta Ayim

2 months ago | lesen.de | Nana Oforiatta Ayim |Robert Galbraith |David Lynch |John Grisham

'Meditative, gestural, philosophic: a brave reinvention of the immigrant narrative ... Unprecedented' Taiye Selasi'Adept, admirable, important' GuardianMaya grows up in Germany in the shadow of her beautiful, volatile mother: a whirlwind, spinning stories of the family's former glory. Then Kojo arrives. Kojo has a way of talking about Ghana, and empire, and history - and for the first time, Maya understands that her parents are exiles. But fate intervenes, and the cousins are separated.

Sep 7, 2023 | aperture.org | Nana Oforiatta Ayim

Family albums are the starting point of the series Sunday Special (2022) by Carlos Idun-Tawiah, who draws on the semiotics of earlier Ghanaian photographers’ work to create his own visual language. It’s a language that resonates with a bygone time but is also deeply contemporary.