‘Black Lives Matter’ movement stirs Ghanaian artist in COVID-19 limbo

After Senegal closed its borders in March, the internationally renowned visual artist had no option but to remain at a residency in Dakar, where she had been creating large textile collages to explore her self-image after a cancer diagnosis.

‘Say Their Names’ is a white and indigo-dyed canvas onto which Opoku has sewn dozens of images of an unidentified face from ancient Egyptian art. Some are printed in red and tumble from a screenprint of Opoku’s face like teardrops. She has a rare perspective on the Black experience after growing up surrounded by white people in communist East Germany, the daughter of a Ghanaian father and German mother.

Wow, sorry it's hard. But, w'll surely get better. 😍😍

GHANA that wonderful country, where the Ashanti tribes used to bring slaves to the ports for the traders. Always amazed when I visited and lived there, how the traders never went in land, it was the local who brought slaves for sale.

That’s so ugly 🤮

The Lord bless America is blessing and protecting America and our President/Vice President .

Indian accuse Arnab Goswami for spreading message of hatred .

Hope she's not losing her head /s.

CRINGE

This is what you call 'art' ?

Borrrrrrring

Oh look, a facebook page mural! I think she needs to get out more.

The most' racist ' picture of the Russian artist of Polish origin Kazimir Malevich is the black square painting

I don’t get the art or the connection to this German-Ghanaian woman.

Oh, doing something so productive while in quarantine.

Nice mural of a dude that stuck a gun to a pregnant woman’s womb.

Yawn

ALL LIVES MATTER!

Too bad geniuses at latimes and msnbc didn’t recognize this when you were celebrating the slobbering unmasked mobs looting and howling in our streets. This pandemic took a turn for the worst because of riots you and your Democrat bosses endorsed

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