Zohra Opoku, a ‘Woven Storyteller,’ Is Shapeshifting Her Way into Africa’s Biggest Museums
Ghanaian German artist Zohra Opoku is the subject of her first museum survey at the Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa (Zeitz MOCAA), after curator Beata America discovered her practice during a 2023 research trip to Ghana with colleague Julia Kabat. The exhibition, “We Proceed in the Footsteps of the Sunlight,” curated by America and Phokeng Setai, opened in September and runs through October 4, taking its title from a passage in the Egyptian Book of the Dead. Opoku described the show as especially meaningful in light of Zeitz MOCAA director Koyo Kouoh’s death last year and her influence on the institution. The survey is organized around recurring themes of water, breath, and ground, and includes works such as QueenMothers (2016), which draws on research with queen mothers in southern Ghana and references the Ashanti Adowa dance and the Akan concept of Sassa.
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