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The artist Serwah Attafuah, with long straight black hair framing her face, she is wearing a nose ring and a necklace,  and her gaze is steady and direct.
Until 1 Jun

Serwah Attafuah: The Darkness Between the Stars

  • Free
  • Art

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

Infused with ‘sakawa’ – Ghanaian internet magic – this speculative vision imagines technology and discarded materials as tools of empowerment. Using VFX, animation and 3D modelling, Attafuah’s art critiques historical and modern exploitation while envisioning a future reclaimed.

Hours

Date Times
Sat 31 May
  • 10am - 5pm 10:00am - 5:00pm
Sun 1 Jun
  • 10am - 5pm 10:00am - 5:00pm

Location

ACMI
Flinders St
Melbourne 3000

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This is a free event

Booking not required

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  • telephone number: 03 8663 2200
  • email address: info@acmi.net.au
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