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Florine Demosthene, Untitled Wound#2 (2018). Mylar, ink, glitter and pigment stick on paper, copyright the artist, courtesy Gallery 1957, Accra
Exhibition
The Stories I Tell Myself
6 Mar 2018 – 6 May 2018
Event times
Tuesday—Saturday
11am—7pm during exhibitions
Address
- Kempinski Hotel Gold Coast City, PMB 66 — Ministries
- Gamel Abdul Nasser Avenue
- Accra
Greater Accra - Ghana
This March, Gallery 1957, Accra presents a solo exhibition from mixed-media artist Florine Demosthene, following a four month residency with the gallery.
About
Opening on 6 March – Ghana’s Independence Day – the exhibition marks the artist’s first in Ghana, and celebrates Gallery 1957’s second anniversary.
Demosthene was born in the United States and raised between Port-au-Prince, Haiti and New York; she has spent the past four years living and working across Africa. Exploring themes surrounding race and gender, the artist uses her own biography as a reference point to re-evaluate the socio-political structures and conditions that surround black female sexuality and physicality today.
Using a combination of figurative and abstract mark making, Demosthene constructs alternative landscapes to present the heroines of her practice. The artist explains:
“For me, my art has been a peeling away of layers of preconceived ideas; much in the way a snake sheds its skin, this slow shedding process can be viewed as a continual rebirth of our identity.”
