A Multi-Venue Exhibition in Ghana Seeks to Shift Perspectives Through the Lens of Time
A collaborative show between Denmark’s ARoS Art Museum and Ghana’s Savannah Centre for Contemporary Art puts a timely subject—time itself—at the forefront.
By Zoe Cooper
July 24, 2021
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The underlying vision for “A Diagnosis of Time: Unlearn What You Have Learned,” a collaborative exhibition between the ARoS Art Museum in Aarhus, Denmark; the Savannah Centre for Contemporary Art (SSCA) in Tamale, Ghana; and the Ghana Museums and Monuments Board (on view through November 3), is both literally and figuratively timely: It seeks to shift the ways we think about the passage of time in our modern world. “We conceive of time as something that develops very chronologically,” says one of the show’s curators, Selom Kudjie. “But we also have a sense of simultaneity that’s involved in time. Two things can be happening at once, but not in the same location.” (A related exhibition, “This is Not Africa: Unlearn What You Have Learned,” currently on view at ARoS through October 24, challenges stereotypical Western notions of African-ness.)
