Elolo Bosoka

Elolo Bosoka is a Ghanaian artist who works and lives in Kumasi. He makes short films, objects, paintings, drawings, and see-through soft sculptures.

Elolo appropriates objects from the mundane corners of his urban environment to inquire into the notion of “art as a commonplace,” informality, economic exchange, materiality, and history. He collects everyday objects which have some form of history with human beings, especially people living in marginalised localities, open markets, and sometimes his urban environment.

He asks, “How can an everyday activity like sewing, stitching, cutting, or gluing be seen as a way of mixing and applying pigment on a flat surface?” Or, “What can be possible with objects, especially when we are looking at colour and texture with pictorial art?” In his work seen here, he used charcoal sacks, fishing nets, rags - things used mostly in our everyday - and takes them as objects of examination, stripped, stretched, cut, glued, and sewn and transformed into compositions, patchworks, and sometimes ghostly bodies.

These mundane materials become the objects of inquiry and instruction. In doing this, Elolo not only borrows from the ready-made culture, but reinvents new ways of looking at objecthood and flatness.

Elolo has shown his work in numerous exhibitions internationally. He is also a Ph.D. student in the Department of Painting and Sculpture, KNUST, Kumasi, Ghana.

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