Browsing by Author "Komla, Attah Prosper"

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    Collage and Contemporary Ghanaian Iconography: An Exhibition Project
    (2011) Komla, Attah Prosper
    This thesis explores non-visual sources of contemporary Ghanaian iconography for collage. Basically, I focus on themes from proverbs, incantations, folklores, songs etc., found among the people of Avatime in the Volta Region, which can be adopted for collage making. The central idea for this project is to produce a number of collages that expresses the philosophies, ideas and values of the contemporary Ghanaian with emphasis on the people of Avatime traditional area. To achieve these objectives, I interviewed some custodians and senior citizens to tap from them meaning and moral values from proverbs, maxims, drum languages, incantations, folklores etc which I later developed into series of symbols before finally developing them into catalogues of collages meant for exhibitions and peer review. By the end of the project, I have realized that, the non-visual forms of contemporary Ghanaian iconographies could best worth their purpose, if they are represented in visual or pictorial images such as collages.
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    Collage and Contemporary Ghanaian Iconography: an Exhibition Project
    (2008) Komla, Attah Prosper
    This project is an artistic engagement with the complex co-ordinates of Ghanaian modernity. I use collage, a hybrid format of early Modernist painting, as the medium and visual metaphor for the liminal Ghanaian modernity. The canonical proverbs, incantations, maxims, folktales, myths and songs of the Avatime area in the Volta Region are the sources of Ghanaian iconography interpreted in collage. Notably, Avatime identity is an appropriate social analogue of the collage medium; it is overdetermined, especially in its complex overlaps with Ewe identity. It is these overlaps and interstices of Ghanaian modernity that interest me. I developed a catalogue of iconographic symbols and textual transcriptions from the Avatime-Ewe oral canon. Based on the catalogue of symbols I developed a corpus of twenty four collages crafted from waste products of the Ghanaian textile and clothing industries. In my collages, the heavy industry meets the artisanal, the aboriginal meets the modern, the ethnographic order complicates fine art autonomy and vice versa. I showcased the framed collages in an exhibition which drew critical responses from the audience. Through print and electronic mediums, I hope to expand the format for the project's dissemination and its conversation with existing collage practice.
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    Collage and Contemporary Ghanaian Iconography: An Exhibition Project
    (2011-7) Komla, Attah Prosper
    This thesis explores non-visual sources of contemporary Ghanaian iconography for collage. Basically, I focus on themes from proverbs, incantations, folklores, songs etc., found among the people of Avatime in the Volta Region, which can be adopted for collage making...