Art + Film: Serwah Attafuah Talk

Known for creating surreal cyber dreamscapes and Afrofuturistic artworks with contemporary themes, Serwah Attafuah presents a discussion on her work The Darkness Between Stars, currently on display in ACMI Gallery 3.

Attafuah’s multidisciplinary practice includes digital painting, 3D animation, motion capture, digital animations and virtual reality.

In The Darkness Between the Stars, Attafuah weaves past, present and future into an Afrofuturist vision of resilience and reclamation across five screens. Female warriors rise from burning slave castles and shipwrecked colonial vessels, their glitch-patterned kente cloth celebrating Ghana’s matrilineal traditions.

The work explores the intersection of climate change, e-waste, the legacies of the slave trade, land rights and the indomitable spirit of the indigenous peoples of West Africa.