Ibrahim Mahama: Songs about Roses (Non-mint)

Softcover | 28 x 21 x 3 cm | 332 pp

Fruitmarket Gallery | 2024 | 9781908612724

Ghanaian artist critically acclaimed for his evocative large-scale, site-specific installations that speak to the cultural and social effects of post-colonialism and global migration.

Mahama (b.1987) burst onto the international art scene at the 56th Venice Biennale in 2015 with Out of Bounds, a work that clad the massive outside wall of the Arsenale in jute sacks to make a visually spectacular and thought-provoking installation. This work set the tone for what has become Mahama's on-going investigation into the life of materials and their dynamic potential - the jute sacks telling a visual history of the narratives of production and trade, and the more human tales embodied within.

Featuring extensive installation photography of his new work created exclusively for Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh in 2024 as well as an expanded selection of his immersive installations this book also details the processes behind the works he makes and Red Clay Studio, a cultural institution which is a space for interrogation and artistic change in Ghana.

Including new writing commissioned from curator Aby Gaye and Congolese artist Godelive Kasangati as well as an interview with Ibrahim Mahama.

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