Adjoa Armah

In our language the word for the sea means the ‘spirit that returns’

For her final piece as Writer in Residence Adjoa Armah maps key sites in the construction of Black subjects on the African coast. In our language the word for the sea means the 'spirit that returns' responds to the strategies provided by other artists and thinkers attending to Black spatial consciousness; addressing cartography as a colonising technology and the possibilities of its use as a liberatory one.

Kudzanai-Violet Hwami: ‘(15,952km) via Trans-Sahara Hwy N1’

Reviewing Kudzanai-Violet Hwami's first institutional solo show, Adjoa Armah addresses the complex set of ideas and histories from Shona culture inscribed in her work. Armah discusses Hwami's paintings as surfaces where the relationships between magic and science, dreams and political history, or the physical and the digital, are renegotiated along non-linear temporalities.

Artists at Work: Tiona Nekkia McClodden

In a conversation with Afterall's first writer in residence Adjoa Armah, Tiona Nekkia McClodden discusses how her various identities - as Black, Queer woman, BDSM practitioner, priestess - inform her work, and how she operates in the art world and across other practices.