Zohra Opoku works between her upbringing in East Germany and her ancestral connections to Ghana, often using cloth, photography and personal imagery to explore identity and memory. What stays with me is that fabric already has a history before the artist touches it. It folds, travels, wears out and touches bodies. Memory does something similar. Perhaps that is why textile can feel more intimate than a perfectly clean surface.
Cloth Can Carry Two Histories
Zeitz MOCAA We Proceed in the Footsteps of the Sunlight - Zeitz MOCAA Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa (Zeitz MOCAA) presents We Proceed in the Footsteps of the Sunlight, the first museum survey exhibition of Ghanaian-German artist Zohra Opoku. Tracing a decade of quiet revolutions in cloth, memory, and self, the exhibition brings together textured expressions of personal history and cultural inheritance, revealing an artistic journey in constant motion. […]