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Issue 4, Summer 2022

Theme: Value

Issue 4 explores the theme of Value, which unfolds over four chapters: The Importance of Being Earnest, Moral Code, Family Values, & RWA – Rich With an Attitude, featuring Kareem Reid, Jeri Hilt, Azza Yousif, Jessica Madavo and more.

If you look at all our previous issues one name pops up every time. So when we found out Adjoa Armah first traveling solo exhibition was in the works we knew we had to be involved in some way. Adjoa is an artist, educator, writer and editor with a background in design anthropology. Her practice is concerned with the entanglement between
narrative, the archive, pedagogy, black ontology, infrapolitics, and spatial consciousness. She is founder of Saman Archive, a gathering of photographic negatives encountered across Ghana, through which she explores models of institution building grounded in Akan temporalities and West African technologies of social and historical mediation. In her show The Sea it Slopes Like a Mountain with Auto Italia, Adjoa sets out to translate a series of trips into the grammar of an exhibition. Adjoa documented and travelled 330 miles along the Ghanian coast from
Beyin to Keta, a stretch of sand, soil and rock with more European former slave forts than anywhere else on the African continent. Using sand gathered from the locations of personal significance she sculpted objects selected for their function as sonic, linguistic, spiritual and historical technologies. In The Sea, the Shores and its Memories Adjoa spoke to Tate Modern International Curator Osei Bonsu about how all this came together and the next steps for this exhibition which continues on to the Nubuke Foundation.

COURTESY OF SAMAN ARCHIVE, 1990S, APAM.
PHOTOGRAPHER: JACOB QUAYE MENSAH
TEXT OSEI BONSU

Pages: 250

Contributors:

ADAM GARLAND
ADETOLANI DAVIES JR
ADJOA ARMAH
ALEX MEIN
ALEXANDER IKHIDE
AZZA YOUSIF
CHARLENE PREMPEH
EDET UDOSEN
EKOW BARNES
FATOUMATA DIABATE
INEZ VAN LAMSWEERDE & VINOODH MATADIN
JEBI LABEMBIKA
JERI HILT WRITER
JESSICA MADAVO
JO FROST
JONATHON JOHNSON
JUERGEN STROHMAYER
KAREEM REID
KIM RANCE
LAWIS DALTON GILBERT
LOUISA TRAPIER
MAHORO SEWARD
MATTHEW BENSON
MEWALGA MOHAMAD
NELSON CJ
OSEI BONSU
PAA JOE
PABLO KUEMIN
PAUL MENDEZ
PIETER HUGO
RITA MAWUENA
SANDY ALIBO
SIL BRUINSMA
TAREK MOUGANIE
THIERY DO NASCIMENTO
TONY TAGOE
+Many More

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With love,
BBF Team