Edited by Ibrahim Mahama and Eva Brioschi
Texts by Bernard Akoi-Jackson and Ibrahim Mahama; Eva Brioschi; karî’kachä seid’ou and Selom Kudjie

Design: Studio Temp
Publisher: Lenz
Softcover, 28,5 x 21 cm, 272 pages
Year of publication: 2022
English / Italian

A special edition of 7 unique copies: Ibrahim Mahama has intervened on the pages of the volume published to accompany his inaugural exhibition at Eataly Art House in Verona, enriching it with sketches and Polaroid photographs that testify to his continuous research and mapping of the Ghanaian territory.
The first catalogue of E.ART.H. is constructed as visual diary of artist’s impressive work in his native Tamale, a community-based project founded on the understanding of art as totalizing, reparatory experience: a catalyzer of energies directed for change and social progress. It features texts by the curator Eva Brioschi, Mahama’s professor and mentor karî’kachä seid’ou with Selom Kudjie, and Mahama himself with Bernard Akoi-Jackson.
Voli-ni, which literally means “inside the hole,” is composed of individual particles with their own meaning: Vo, “to pull out,” “extract”; li, “to transfer,” “teleport”; and ni, “here and now.”?
Voli-ni therefore indicates an emersion from darkness, from a failed past of defeat, towards the possibility of redemption, regeneration, through a portal that is real (recovered architecture) or imaginary (art).