EUGENE AGYEI / THE MIGRANT CREATION
“My work encompasses the architectural, geographical, cultural, and social spaces encountered as a person of the diaspora.”
Eugene Agyei
Current migrations are reflected in the complexity of their displacements and their desires for insertion in the new territory of arrival or reception, in which they raise their particular concerns as active subjects of their individual and collective history.
Eugene Agyei
In the meantime
2022
Earthenware clay, African fabric, yarn, oxidation firing
110 x 93 x 212 inches
Through his artistic body of work, Eugene Agyei (Ghana, 1993-) continuously expresses his displacement and with it, his heritage, traditions, and customs, led by the artist to the place of hybridity that characterizes our time, this place that now speaks of the plural without borders and that, in the case of Agyei, speaks of a new postcolonial subject who recognizes his contributions and those of others, and who is now called Afropolitan.
Eugene Agyei
In the World through which I travel, I am endlessly creating myself Franz Fanon
2023
Earthenware clay, yarn, wooden stool, found object, mirror, map
61 x 35 x58 inches
Agyei’s work introduces the new traditions of a continuously moving global world, which he appropriates through the materials he uses — as the artist himself contends — with the intention of creating complex visual and tactile layers, as well as stratified associations and meanings that are common to everyone and can be recognized by everyone.
Eugene Agyei
Days Are Numbered
2023
Earthenware, batik fabric, yarns, wooden stool, shoes, lace, map
85 x 49 x 34 in
He aims to communicate the challenges that, as an artist and subject, he faces when occupying multiple worlds, when moving through different realities and enveloping them “in brightly colored African batik cloth, familiar threads, and materials, originally manufactured in Indonesia and then stamped in Africa with Chinese threads. Its complex material history symbolizes the cultural hybridity that shapes me and that I evidence beyond all limits and borders”.
Eugene Agyei
Days Are Numbered
(Detail)
2023
Earthenware, batik fabric, yarns, wooden stool, shoes, lace, map
85 x 49 x 34 in
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