Elsie Owusu + Chisara Agor

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Elsie Owusu + Chisara Agor

A project reborn, Elsie Owusu has restarted an idea for a gallery in Ghana.

Akrafokonmu/Soul washer's badge
Chisara Agor
Words by Elsie Owusu. Music by Chisara Agor. Cover Image: "Asante Trophy Head, Unknown artist, before 1874 (made), Ghana, gold, The Wallace Collection, London, image public domain. The mask is 20cm high, weighing 1.36kg of pure gold, and was seized by the British army from Kumasi, Ghana, in 1874. It was sold to Garrard & Co. Ltd, the Crown Jeweller, from whom Wallace bought it, together with Asante swords, knives and gold rings"

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Artwork © Elsie Owusu
Sound art © Chisara Agor

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