Bio
Abraham Tettey is a Ghanaian artist-curator whose practice spans exhibitions, publishing, workshops and radio. Working at the intersections of cultural memory, material ecologies and digital futures, he approaches exhibition-making as a form of artistic enquiry into how cultural institutions and infrastructures shape the ways we see and understand the world. Through archival research, collaborative inquiry and public engagement, his work traces relationships between histories, places and communities, creating spaces for reflection, dialogue and collective forms of world-building across independent, community-based and institutional contexts.
Project Description
Working with
Acervo Bajubá, a community-based LGBTQ+ archive in Brazil, Abraham Tettey explores the archive as a living practice in which care, visibility and authority are continuously negotiated. Through photographs, zines and community-generated materials, he examines how queer communities produce and preserve their own histories within, against and through archival systems shaped by colonial structures of classification, description and access. The project questions which forms of knowledge archives are built to recognise and what possibilities emerge when communities develop their own ways of preserving, transmitting and activating memory.
