What We Do Makes A Difference
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PRESENTED BY THE CHRISTOPHER MOLLER GALLERY.
23 March - 4 August 2023
SOLO EXHIBITION
What We Do Makes A Difference
by Hamid Nii Nortey
For acclaimed self-taught artist Hamid Nii Nortey, it is only through activism that real change, no matter how profound or paltry, can be achieved. His latest body of work, What We Do Makes A Difference, reveals a deep reflection of how the course of one’s life and its outcomes, whether favourable or not, may well be based on challenging the status quo and questioning the individual circumstances that we find ourselves in.
The concepts of personal freedom and social change are foremost in Nortey’s newest artistic foray. Much of his deeply personal process delves into his history growing up in a traditional Ga ethnic multigenerational home in Ghana. Something we have always been struck by with Nortey’s deeply saturate and intensely thoughtful works, is his ability to capture the zeitgeist of the world he observes. In this collection, What We Do Makes a Difference, we see his subjects redolent in youthful optimism, submerged in brilliantly coloured intense and dare we say it, even ‘boujee’ social scenes. It’s a collection that is indicative of the change in attitude of his generation compared to more traditional expectations and certainly reveals what is most important to them.
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“We see Nortey as an artist who is instrumental in breaking African stereotypes. Outdated perspectives are cast aside…”
