Guided Tour with Akosua Viktoria Adu-Sanyah (Artist) and Nadine Isabelle Henrich (Curator)

In an open, free-flowing conversation, artist Akosua Viktoria Adu-Sanyah and curator Nadine Isabelle Henrich will introduce the exhibition and the artistic photographic processes involved. The prints in this exhibition were created under carefully controlled conditions in which materials, chemicals, and the environment function as active contributors to the creative process. This conversation between curator and artist will provide a deeper understanding of the creative, emotional, and conceptual processes that take place in Adu-Sanyah’s specially designed darkroom. Colours and shapes emerge through filters, improvised tools, and the penetration of daylight through cracks and openings in the room, while paper is unrolled by hand in the dark. Edges and irregularities are intentionally preserved as part of the resulting images.

Akosua Viktoria Adu-Sanyah (b. 1990, Bonn, DE) is a German-Ghanaian artist based in Zurich. Her work explores the interplay between materiality and emotional states in photography. Using iterative and process-oriented methods, she creates works in her colour darkroom that examine interpersonal relationships and institutional aspects of society and the environment. In her practice, which is both research-based and influenced by autobiographical elements, she combines analogue techniques with contemporary technologies to create complex visual worlds that push the boundaries of media and open up new spaces of perception.