Tamale

Ibrahim Mahama buys the Benya Lagoon Bridge in Ghana; public monument in Tamale. Ibrahim Mahama digs up the past to build new futures | Art Basel Ibrahim Mahama has bridges on his mind. While bridge-building is a constitutive aim for many artists, few have intervened in actual artistic infrastructure with the facility and scale that Mahama brings. Over the past decade, the artist has become internationally known for his textile works – made of jute and rubber, and incorporating vernacular crafts and daily objects from his native Ghana – and colossal installations that use objects to speak of dispossession, colonial disrepair, and entropy. ...