Materials Engineering Lab, KNUST
Kumasi, Ghana
29 August — 30 August, 2024
Solo Exhibition
Morphogenesis: Reverse-Engineering Foods and Still-Life
This exhibition was held at the Department of Materials Engineering (KNUST) lab, where I started my bioplastic research with my colleague Patrick Nii Okanta Ankrah (in 2018). It explored a wide variety of my experimentations with foods and still-life: 3D prints, food petals, food fabrics, microbe vanitas video installation, microtopography video, and cartography. Worlds Within Worlds is my approach to creating a multidimensional or multiverses of my works. It is burrowed from popular culture multiverse where there are alternate worlds, which speaks to this interest in polymorphous forms and plasticity. The forms varied in different scales and perspectives that are both intimate and immersive. This exhibition ponders the possibilities of immersive microstructures of foods. It also looks at microbial consumption and decomposition in transforming food morphology. It expands the vanitas tradition to that of the micro. It plays with cartographic forms or maps that also expand our notions of landscape concerning micro-forms and the complexity of mapping strange terrains of modified foods.
Photo Credit: Images Courtesy of Kusi Oheneba Boateng
Artworks
Triple Crater, 2022/23
Topography generated from microscopic image from modified noodles sample | Bioplastic PLA (Polylactic Acid) 3D Print | x: 38cm, y: 32 cm, z:4.25cm
Kanzo Larva, 2022/23
Topography generated from microscopic image from modified millet sample | Bioplastic PLA (Polylactic Acid) 3D Print | x: 48cm, y:38 cm, z:6cm
Hydrolyzed Sponge Cells 3.0, 2022/23
Topography generated from microscopic image from modified noodles sample | Bioplastic PLA (Polylactic Acid) 3D Print | x: 30cm, y:30 cm, z:5cm
Hyemema Sponge Cells, 2022
Topography generated from microscopic image from modified biscuit sample | Bioplastic PLA (Polylactic Acid) 3D Print | x: 30cm, y:30 cm, z:5cm
Krater-X, 2024
Topography generated from microscopic image from modified unknown sample | Print on Acrylic Glass | 33.5cm diameter
Hilly V-5, 2024
Topography generated from microscopic image from modified wheat sample | Print on Acrylic Glass | 33.5cm diameter
Plate-aus V1, 2024
Topography generated from microscopic image from modified wheat sample | Print on Acrylic Glass | 33.5cm diameter
Plate-aus V2, 2024
Topography generated from microscopic image from modified 'tuo zaafi' (millet) sample | Print on Acrylic Glass | 33.5cm diameter
Rough V-Plain, 2024
Topography generated from a microscopic image from modified noodles hybrid sample | Print on Acrylic Glass | 33.5cm diameter
Remote Sensing, 2024
Still and generative topology from live (video) textures | Duration: 12m 18s | Resolution: 4K
Micro-Vanitas, 2024
Death of microbes, regeneration, starch crystal weathering and microbial feasting | Duration: 12m 18s | Resolution: 4K
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