Press Release

"Lines, Planes and Ridges in between" is a solo exhibition by Elolo Bosoka which inquires into flatness, objecthood and theatricality. Seemingly unrelated fashioned and found objects, including repurposed plastic sacks, used tomato cans (for measuring commodities in open markets and other sites of exchange), wooden shelves, transparent silicon, electric burners, etc., are organized into a coherent ensemble of elements in relation to the modernist architecture of the Senior Staff Club House in Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), Kumasi, Ghana. The exhibition intends to call attention to our contemporary relationship to things and everyday objects.

Elolo Bosoka is a Ghanaian artist currently based in Kumasi. He has participated in blaxTARLINES KUMASI's trilogy of large scale exhibitions organized at the Museum of Science and Technology in Accra since 2015— "the Gown Must go to Town"(2015), "Cornfields in Accra" (2016) and "Orderly, Disorderly" (2017).

Bosoka employs painting, drawing, installation, photography and video in his work. His practice engages questions of labour, packaging and consumerism within Ghana's informal economic sectors. The 'container' becomes the matter in Bosoka's plastic, wood and metal manipulations. Used (plastic) charcoal sacks and rusting tomato paste tins tools used for measurements by market sellers— are frayed, stretched, crumpled, cut, burnt, and hammered. Violently transformed into compositions, patchworks, and ghostly things, the packaging materials become the starting point of inquiry for this exhibition. Strips overhang edges, segments are resized, signs repositioned. Bosoka's adept spirit of experimentation initiates new forms that lead us into a surreal void.

The exhibition opens on Friday 3rd August at 5 pm and is supported by blaxTARLINES KUMASI - the contemporary art incubator at the Department of Painting & Sculpture, KNUST. The show will run till August 22nd, 2018.