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Where is Every-BODY? Lake Bosomtwe, Abono, Kumasi, Ghana.
Curatorial Text by Annie-Marie Akussah
The author of the question “where is every- body?”, would often seek a concrete answer; a definite position of every-body. The response merely posits a position but a condition and awareness of spatial relations.
Where is every-body? inhabits the foliage at Paradise resort in Abono, spreading unto Lake Bosomtwe. The site is thinly littered with objects that offer a phenomenological mode of expression and share with the inhabitant an intimate sense of place in its errance. The objects do not dominate the space, but act as extensions, as hosts that crave translation (an experience; movement).
The exhibition takes a participatory approach by dialectically placing objects in various openings and “margins” that constantly engage the place and non- place, the site and non-site. The tantamount coupling between you and the sky, you and the olivine ripples…is that which allows us to know our relation to the abyss.
Akussah’s practice is concerned with how marks are made and the aura they leave behind and carry with them when encountered. Marks that (re)appear; quietly and subtly, marks that are present as withdrawals viz in absentia and those that present faint chasms and inconsistencies; marks with a forceful appearance, those that remained from an uprooting, marks created from momentary casts, negations and those reverberating (retentir) in pervasive spaces.