Serge Attukwei Clottey - [Dis]Appearing Rituals: An Open Lab of Now for Tomorrow: Co-curated by Allotey Bruce-Konuah and Ato Annan | Third Floor, Galleria Mall, Accra
Current exhibition
Overview
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Gallery 1957 is proud to present [Dis]Appearing Rituals: An Open Lab of Now for Tomorrow, a solo exhibition by Serge Attukwei Clottey opening in Accra on 1st November 2025 during Accra Cultural Week.
Almost a decade after inaugurating Gallery 1957 with his debut solo exhibition “My Mother’s Wardrobe” in 2016, Serge Attukwei Clottey returns to take over our 1,400 sqm Unlimited Gallery, presenting “[Dis]Appearing Rituals: An Open Lab of Now for Tomorrow” - the first and only solo exhibition ever held in this expansive venue. Clottey returns to Jamestown—the historic coastal enclave that has long anchored his practice—to explore how home, memory, and identity endure amid the pressures of urban transformation.
Co-curated by Allotey Bruce-Konuah and Ato Annan, the exhibition reimagines Jamestown not merely as a backdrop, but as a living archive of resilience, contradiction, and creativity. Through material, sound, and scent, the artist translates this charged environment into an immersive installation that transforms the Unlimited Gallery’s vast 1,400 sqm space into an “open lab” of experimentation and reflection. Bringing together sculpture, installation, painting, photography, and performance, the exhibition unfolds as an immersive exploration of material, sound, and scent.
At its core, this exhibition asks what it means to rebuild—materially, spiritually, and collectively—in a place marked by loss and renewal. Clottey redefines resilience not as endurance alone, but as a generative, ritualistic act: the daily work of transforming scarcity into beauty, and brokenness into possibility. His gestures of cutting, stitching, and layering mirror the rhythms of Jamestown’s own creative survival, where improvisation and care become acts of quiet resistance.
By reframing Jamestown as a site of living knowledge rather than decay, Clottey invites audiences to encounter the city’s textures—its sea air, its sounds, its collective pulse—as a form of storytelling. [Dis]Appearing Rituals: An Open Lab of Now for Tomorrow ultimately proposes a new language of endurance: one that insists that from what disappears, new forms of life, art, and meaning can always reappear.
