Abdul-Salam Alhassan
Window Exhibition
13.03.23 – 30.03.23
AHC
Halmtorvet 27, 1700 Copenhagen V
The exhibition could be seen from AHC’s windows
The Ghanaian artist Abdul-Salam Alhassan took part in Art Hub Copenhagens residency-exchange programme Wintanworks – a collaboration with blaxTARLINES KUMASI in Ghana.
As part of his residency, he was showing selected works in the windows of AHC. The works are part of two series titled Revelation and Route.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Alhassan seeks to understand the languages of painting and sculpture by way of experimenting with a variety of materials including, but not limited to plastic mats. He collects these materials which are embedded with histories of spirituality, knowledge, and leisure from mosques, schools, and various homes across the country. Merging a background in painting and a keen interest in the materiality of these mats, their colours, textures, and the space they occupy, as well as a delight in layering, Alhassan employs burning as a technique to create abstract paintings, objects and sculptures. Burning is one of many methods in which these materials are discarded after having reached their end-of-life phase By his praxis, Alhassan revives the material into new life using the very methods that would otherwise have concluded their demise. His works explore the potentialities that lie within “ruined” materials and how destruction may yet give birth to new narratives.
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MORE INFO
The window exhibition ran from 13 March – 30 March 2023.
During the entire exhibition period, the exhibition could be seen around the clock through the windows of the AHC.
Abdul-Salam Al Hassan’s exhibition is part of a series of window exhibitions shown at Halmtorvet 27 and Høkerboderne between 2022-2023.
See more images from the exhibition here.
