Gabriel Selassie Tsagli’s Son of Kafui marks his first exhibition in Accra after living between Ghana and Germany. The paintings grow from memory, family, displacement and his return to the city, with figures emerging through accumulated, scraped and pressed layers of paint. I like that memory is not treated as something precise enough to illustrate. Faces can appear as traces, colour can carry emotion, and a place can remain inside someone even after years elsewhere. Returning home does not necessarily close a circle. It may reveal how much the circle has changed.
https://www.gallery1957.com/exhibitions/141-gabriel-selassie-tsagli-son-of-kafui-gallery-ii-accra/
