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Dominic Redfern, Associate Professor, School of Art, RMIT University

Serwah Attafuah: a powerful and most welcome voice in contemporary Australian art

Serwah Attafuah, The Darkness Between The Stars, JOAN. Landscape still. Courtesy of the artist.

Virtuosic digital artistry is on show in Serwah Attafuah’s installation The Darkness Between the Stars, currently showing at ACMI.

The work fiercely challenges stereotypes of black femininity and draws upon the history and culture of the Ashanti people of modern-day Ghana, one of the countries most affected by the Atlantic slave trade and the site of remembrance and pilgrimage for many descendants of the people trafficked as slaves.

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