Sarah Ama Duah

Lives and works in Berlin, Germany

Artist statement

ARTIST BIO AND STATEMENT Sarah Ama Duah (b.1989), Bremen is a German-Ghanaian artist based in Berlin, Ger-many who studied Fashion Design at HAW Hamburg and Fine Arts at UDK Ber-lin in the Performance & Sculpture class. Duah’s practice evolves around sculp-tural appreciation and explores the dynamics that animate grand narrations of history and their relation to material and immaterial memory cultures and the Af-ro-diaspora. Duah adopts a multidisciplinary approach to her work, that invol-ves sculpture, performance, dress and the body as form, gesture and potential. In her ongoing research series to build to bury to remember (2020- ) the artist is challenging the rigidity of historical colonial statues. Together with several performers, they adopt an expanded notion of sculpture as their bo-dies perform temporary monuments while centering the Black female Body. Duah was selected as a participant of the Artist Residency program per-forcraZe International , in Kumasi (2021). Recent exhibitions include the groupshow „Existing Otherwise“ with a Performance at Redclay Tamale (GH) curated by Solvej Ovesen, Ibrahim Mahama and Isabel Lewis (2022) and a sculpture installation at HKW Berlin as part of the exhibition „Echo-es of the brothercountries“, co-curated by Marie Helene Pereira (2024).

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