Ibrahim Mahama, Le Temps des récoltes

The exhibition “Harvest Time” transforms the Fondation Cartier into a series of installations, paintings, photographs and archival displays conceived by Ibrahim Mahama with nine artists and collectives. At the Palais-Royal, industrial materials and stories from Ghana provide the starting point for a reflection on what we preserve, what we pass on and what we can rebuild together.

In Things Fall Apart, Mahama reassembles parts of a former glass bottle factory in Ghana, which opened in 1966. Relocated to the exhibition, this architecture revives the memory of an industrial project bound up with the ambitions of independence. In Parliament of Ghosts, wooden Ashanti seats form a parliamentary chamber where visitors can sit. The work also hosts discussions and performances, giving tangible form to questions of collective life within the exhibition space.

The invited artists extend this exploration through their own perspectives. James Barnor’s portraits and archives resonate with Gideon Appah’s paintings, which draw on images of Ghana from the 1950s to the 1980s. Textile installations by Dorothy Akpene Amenuke and Zohra Opoku explore the memories held in materials and personal histories. Through architecture, film and archives, Feda Wardak examines traditional knowledge and skills relating to water in rural Afghanistan. These works build on the exchanges fostered around the art centres Mahama founded in Tamale.

Practical information
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- Closed on 25 December and 1 January. Early closing on 24 and 31 December.
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