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Abbey IT-A promotes free expression through their artistic practice.
Themes
Free Expression / Civil Society
Sexual Expression / Queer Expression
Others
Disciplines
Performance
Visual Art
Other(s)
Awards
SEED Award 2023
Profile
Abbey IT-A is an artist and curator based in Ghana. Abbey holds a degree in Painting from the Department of Painting and Sculpture at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology. They are interested in the proverbial discursiveness inherent in contemporary art and how it holds in praxis. Abbey explores this concern through experimental, multi-vocal, curatorial interventions with text and conversation as points of departure.
As an associate at the Foundation for Contemporary Art—Ghana (FCA-Ghana), Abbey helps promote discourses on contemporary art in various capacities including facilitating research, coordinating workshops, moderating seminars, curating exhibitions and interventions, and labs.