A royal College of Art Africa Society Exhibition - Translation issues (CAPTIONS)
Chrystal Akakpo Wo f3 gble Wo f3 gble (The Sea Never Dries) is an Adangme expression used by fishing communities to express hope, resilience, and abundance. As a Ghanaian-American, my work explores memory, identity, and the connections between Ghana and the African diaspora. Visiting my mother's hometown, Ningo and traveling to Cape Coast Slave Castle, I reflected on the legacy of the transatlantic slave trade and the resilience of contemporary Ghanaian communities. Through a reconstructed fishing boat, layered nets, and paired photographs, l explore how memory and cultural knowledge are carried, reshaped, and passed across generations. This work invites viewers to recognize the richness of lives beyond Western perspectives. Though we cast our nets on different shores, we share the same sea. Alesha Pryce Black Beauty Black Beauty engages with urgency through its insistence on holding and materialising forms of memory that are often overlooked, fragmented, or at ri...
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Chrystal Akakpo
Wo f3 gble
Wo f3 gble (The Sea Never Dries) is an Adangme expression used by fishing communities to express hope, resilience, and abundance. As a Ghanaian-American, my work explores memory, identity, and the connections between Ghana and the African diaspora. Visiting my mother's hometown, Ningo and traveling to Cape Coast Slave Castle, I reflected on the legacy of the transatlantic slave trade and the resilience of contemporary Ghanaian communities.
Through a reconstructed fishing boat, layered nets, and paired photographs, l explore how memory and cultural knowledge are carried, reshaped, and passed across generations. This work invites viewers to recognize the richness of lives beyond Western perspectives. Though we cast our nets on different shores, we share the same sea.
Alesha Pryce
Black Beauty
Black Beauty engages with urgency through its insistence on holding and materialising forms of memory that are often overlooked, fragmented, or at ri...
