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Annie-Marie Akussah’s work explores how the repository of marks that speak to the aura of an object accumulate and function like (ephemeral) archives, ways an image can be produced and remain in continuum through the language of painting, self-difference and how the exhibition space as an active body (ecosystem) transform entities together in the experience.
In her practice, she uses archival images and latent materials to create paintings, sculptures, and films to explore themes of opacity, belonging, and migration. The images in her work are often from travel documents and signs taken photographically and/or transferred directly from house numbers, signs in ports and other marks that assert a certain location, or destination in an entity’s movement. The images are produced on a latent mesh typically used for silkscreen prints. By using this format of the silkscreen mesh, the fabric acts as an image-making machine with openings that birth new images with other bodies in the space. She also transforms the mesh into sculptures she calls blue capsules, as well as kites, in different iterations. The blue capsule is an object, a space, a habitat, a vehicle, a passage […]
Her work is held in collections at the University of Arts London, City of London: London Metropolitan Archive and EF Education First.