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Serge Attukwei Clottey: The eccentric Ghanaian artist who pioneered “Afrogallonism

Serge Clottey received international acclaim long before his work was celebrated at home. Following in the footsteps of his artist father, Clottey trained in Brazil to become a performance artist whose work is often met with great puzzlement and curiousity in Ghana.

Not only does the artist create tapestries and sculptures made of jerrycans or, as the locals call them, “Kufuor gallons” to provide social commentary but he also uses his own body, in performance, to try and bring together disparate and competing ideas.

 

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What is “Afrogallonism”?

In Ghana jerrycans play a vital role in transporting water in times of drought but leave behind an environmental catastrophe once the drought ends. They lie discarded by the side of the road, on city dumps and beaches, or they are washed away by the rains to gather and clog up the country’s drainage system.

Clottey’s aim when he uses the jerrycans in art installations is to raise awareness of this crisis and to rouse local communities into action. He cuts the jerrycans into small tiles and shapes them over an open flame, then molds the different sections together before binding them with items like copper. He also incorporates other salvaged waste items such as discarded electrical goods or wood, bones and shells. The end result are large tapestries that the artist calls “paint-less paintings”.