Kwasi
Darko

Awardee

Country

Ghana

Kwasi Darko promotes queer expression his photography.
Themes
Reexamining history
Disciplines
Artistic Research
Design
Film
Literature
Performance
Photography
Video Art
Visual Art
Awards
FELLOWS Award 2021
Building Beyond

Profile

Kwasi Darko is a Ghanaian fine arts photographer, digital artist and curator living and working in Accra, Ghana. His work uses visual art and performance art to create visibility and weave positive narratives for people usually ignored and underrepresented in his society. Beyond exploring queer identities and spaces on his home continent, his work also explores Blackness and its many intersections. A BA in theatre arts informs the poetic and traditional nature of his work, while recent interest in virtual and augmented reality programming has geared his art into a more digital and technology-oriented direction, exploring such concepts as transhumanism and the human relationship with the digital.