SCCA Tamale, Tamale, Ghana
13 Sep 2025 - 14 Mar 2026
Nuotama Bodomo. Still from "In Search of Yennenga" (forthcoming), larger film from which the excerpt "The Unsung" (5 min.) is presented at TWTW. Courtesy of the artist.
SCCA Tamale presents The Writing’s on the Wall (TWTW), opening 13th September 2025 and running through 14th March 2026. The show features art by a mix of millennials, Gen Zers, Gen Xers, baby boomers and ancestors, and presents a spectrum of tactile, manual, microbial, digital, social, scientific and spiritual mediums. TWTW offers an intimate view into the practices of 14 women artists from or connected to Ghana, as they pilot new aspects of upcoming projects; reveal rarely seen sides of earlier initiatives; explore ancestral and intergenerational dialogues; and dialogue with each other, the space, and a team of curating-artists.
Participating Artists: Tracy Naa Koshie Thompson, Lois Selasie Arde-Acquah, Priscilla Kennedy, Kezia Ouomoye, Afia Prempeh, Fibi Afloe, Zohra Opoku, Baerbel Mueller, Nuotama Bodomo, Nyornuwofia Agorsor, Na Chainkua Reindorf, Naomi Boahemaa Jnr. Sakyi, Akosua Odeibea Amoah-Yeboah, Anna Friemoth | Penny & Pierre Gentieu
While The Writing’s on the Wall is ostensibly an exhibition of work by women artists, it is less about the fact that they are women, and more about what it means to mother, care, give life to, and also let go.
The exhibition title refers to the story from the Bible, its re-renderings in popular music, and the idea of coded language, rising and falling, destruction and renewal. The question of regeneration runs throughout the artists’ work and the exhibition at large, where walls and wombs are tested as structures of care and conception, protection and aggression, beauty and borders. All the artists in TWTW are knowledge-keepers, hackers, healers, and conceivers in various ways, and the shape of the exhibition reflects and opens space for their creative regeneration.
The exhibition is about not only the pieces themselves, but also the process of making art in community, in crisis, and as a portal to alternate realities. Curious Curating led by Robin Riskin and a team of curating-artists from Robin Beth Inc. (RBI) adapts to uncontrollable conditions, embraces process as a form of practice, mediates via poetic and interpersonal narrative, and is as multi-tongued as the artworks themselves. Works and words play on the wall, off the wall, beyond the wall, and beyond the space, with walls themselves treated as sites for sculptural, painterly and lyrical manipulation.
