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Ibrahim Mahama. Ibrahim Mahama. Parliament of Ghosts. TUE - SUN 20/05 > 30/09 11 AM - 7 PM 01/10 > 26/11 10 AM - 6 PM ; Central Pavilion; Admission with ticket; Share this page on. Share on Facebook Share on X Share on LinkedIN Send via WhatsApp. Ibrahim Mahama (Tamale, Ghana, 1987)
Ibrahim Mahama. Public art’s main virtue is to exist beyond the imposed hierarchies of museum and galleries. Out in the open the works, orphans of preconceptions, confront an unacquainted public, perhaps igniting a sense of wonder. Ibrahim Mahama’s spectacular installations of sewn coal sacks are the result of his investigation of the ...
Ibrahim Mahama is an artist. Mahama uses the transformation of materials to explore themes of commodity, migration, globalisation and economic exchange. His solo exhibition at White Cube, Bermondsey is on view until 7 November. He lives in Tamale, Ghana. VANESSA PETERSON. Vanessa Peterson is associate editor of frieze . She lives in London, UK.
16 de jul. de 2019 · Ibrahim Mahama’s Parliament of Ghosts. Photograph: Michael Pollard “My hope,” he says, “is to start conversations at a time when there are very few meaningful ones.
Ibrahim Mahama Artworks. Mahama is perhaps best known for his large-scale works made from jute sacks. Made in Southeast Asia before being imported to Ghana, jute sacks are used in markets and to transport goods such as food, charcoal and coal. To Mahama, the sacks represent a complex system of global exchange and a freedom of movement afforded ...
18 de may. de 2022 · Ibrahim Mahama’s monumental site-specific installation Out of Bounds steals the show; his collage of jute sacks, stitched and woven together, are draped over the long external walls of the buildings that make up the Arsenale, transforming these corridor-like spaces while providing a visual history of the narratives of production, trade and the more human tales that are embodied by these sacks.
Ibrahim Mahama’s practice of swathing buildings in fabric should be read within this framework. Born in 1987 in Tamale, Ghana, Mahama regularly envelops buildings—theaters, museums, residential buildings, ministries—in Accra and Kumasi. The artist uses tattered jute sacks obtained from traders in exchange for new ones. The currency is memory.
