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Live with courage


NPO: To live with courage is to believe in yourself, to go on regardless, to love regardless, and to start over every time. You are too powerful to be intimidated by fears. Face your fears, fearlessly. — Naide P Obiang

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A: #SergeAttukweiClottey (b. 1985) is known for his work that examines the powerful agency of everyday objects. Working across #installation, #performance, #photography and #sculpture, Clottey explores narratives of personal, family and collective histories often relating to trade and migration.



Based in #Accra and working internationally, Clottey, the creator of #Afrogallonism, an artistic concept that comments on consumption within modern Africa through the utilization of yellow gallon containers.



Through cutting, drilling, stitching and melting found materials, Clottey’s #sculpturalinstallations are bold assemblages that act as a means of inquiry into questions of form and history. As the founder of #Ghana’s #GoLokal performance collective, Clottey sees art as a way to transform society.


In August 2019 Clottey received the award of Honorary Doctorate of Arts from the University of Brighton.

Nationality: Ghana — artskop

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i.c.: IG Attukwei_ducttape_paintings, afrogallonism

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