Editor: Ibrahim Mahama and Eva Brioschi
Texts: Bernard Akoi-Jackson and Ibrahim Mahama; Eva Brioschi; Karî’kachä Seid’ou and Selom Kudjie
Publishing house: Lenz Press
Pages: 272
This volume, published to accompany Mahama’s inaugural exhibition at Eataly Art House, in Verona, is constructed as a visual diary of the artist’s impressive work in his native Tamale, a community-based project founded on the understanding of art as totalizing, reparatory experience: a catalyzer of energies directed for change and social progress. It features texts by the curator Eva Brioschi, Mahama’s professor and mentor karî’kachä seid’ou with Selom Kudjie, and Mahama himself with Bernard Akoi-Jackson. Voli-ni, which literally means “inside the hole,” is composed of individual particles with their own meaning: Vo, “to pull out,” “extract”; li, “to transfer,” “teleport”; and ni, “here and now.”
Voli-ni therefore indicates an emersion from darkness, from a failed past of defeat, towards the possibility of redemption, and regeneration, through a portal that is real (recovered architecture) or imaginary (art).
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Editor: Ibrahim Mahama and Eva Brioschi
Texts: Bernard Akoi-Jackson and Ibrahim Mahama; Eva Brioschi; Karî’kachä Seid’ou and Selom Kudjie
Publishing house: Lenz Press
Pages: 272
This volume, published to accompany Mahama’s inaugural exhibition at Eataly Art House, in Verona, is constructed as a visual diary of the artist’s impressive work in his native Tamale, a community-based project founded on the understanding of art as totalizing, reparatory experience: a catalyzer of energies directed for change and social progress. It features texts by the curator Eva Brioschi, Mahama’s professor and mentor karî’kachä seid’ou with Selom Kudjie, and Mahama himself with Bernard Akoi-Jackson. Voli-ni, which literally means “inside the hole,” is composed of individual particles with their own meaning: Vo, “to pull out,” “extract”; li, “to transfer,” “teleport”; and ni, “here and now.”
Voli-ni therefore indicates an emersion from darkness, from a failed past of defeat, towards the possibility of redemption, and regeneration, through a portal that is real (recovered architecture) or imaginary (art).
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