The image shows an analog photograph created through manual, digital, and chemical experiments. These processes produce colorful, asymmetrical shapes and give the image a distinctive chromatic look.


The image shows an analog photograph created through manual, digital, and chemical experiments. These processes produce colorful, asymmetrical shapes and give the image a distinctive chromatic look.


Akosua Viktoria Adu-Sanyah, White Gaze II Black Square (small iteration, mirror II), 2024 (detail), © Akosua Viktoria Adu-Sanyah

AKOSUA VIKTORIA ADU-SANYAH

Corner Dry Lungs

It’s dark and dripping. The smell of chemical fumes hangs in the air.

Through manual processes, digital or chemical experiments, and performative gestures, Akosua Viktoria Adu-Sanyah creates works and spaces that are at once clear, revealing, and ephemeral. In doing so, she questions the limits of the medium of photography both conceptually and through physical practice. Complete control and complete loss of control define the space of the possible. The lengthy process of developing analog photographs is not concealed here but is a visible part of the installation, inextricably linked to the works, their presentation, and ourselves. By exposing the technical nature of the developing process, we are witnesses—and thus part of the photographic reality.

The works created in the exhibition space, under its light, spatial, and institutional conditions, become part of a mourning process; Frankfurt becomes a place of loss. The incessant tears leave the lungs dry.

For the exhibition Corner Dry Lungs at ZOLLAMTMMK, Akosua Viktoria Adu-Sanyah (b. 1990) is creating a new, expansive work.

The exhibition is supported by

Exhibition

28 September 2024 — 2 Februar 2025

ZOLLAMTMMK

Domstraße 3
60311 Frankfurt am Main


  • Monday Closed
  • Tuesday 11:00 - 18:00
  • Wednesday 11:00 - 20:00
  • Thursday 11:00 - 18:00
  • Friday 11:00 - 18:00
  • Saturday 11:00 - 18:00
  • Sunday 11:00 - 18:00

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