If you’ve paid close attention to the Accra art scene for the past few years, “The Alchemy of Colour and Matter”—a compelling show about process, experimentation, endurance—may have felt like a palate cleanser. Deviating from an art market dominated by Black figuration and political virtue signaling following the “racial reckoning” of 2020, the show presents a more expansive landscape of contemporary art exhibited in Ghana.
Here, refreshingly, six female artists—Araba Opoku, Na Chainkua Reindorf, Mimi Adu-Serwaah, Roisin Jones, Sika Amakye, and Tizta Berhanu—meditate on how the process of melding color, material, and experimental intent can result in abstraction that holds technique, emotional resonance, and interiority in equal, compelling weight.
