DURING: CHANGEABLE BEHAVIOUR/ BEHAVIOURAL CHANGE (HERE SOON)

Excerpt from Press Release:

During: Changeable Behaviour/ Behavioural Change (Here Soon)’ is the title given to this exhibition of works by Appau Jnr Boakye-Yiadom, as it explores the organic procession of production through the transaction of hands.

In 2019, Boakye-Yiadom took up an artist residency at the Villa Lena Foundation located in Italy. This artist retreat fostered the expansion and progression of collaboration and exchange, inviting an array of cultural practitioners to dissect the cultural and political dichotomies of our everyday life through multiple dialogues. Not only was this the inception for Boakye- Yiadom instigating his trail of thought towards his exhibition, the residency also gave him the opportunity to further exercise this essence of mistrust in images by repeating and revealing the details of its production.

Surrounded by a vast and luscious landscape where around every corner edible produce was grown. Boakye-Yiadom would frequently find himself observing the subtle ripening within the pomegranate trees. Capturing the pomegranate in photographic form, both in its entirety and intimate detail. Boakye-Yiadom’s fascination with such delicacies and this particular Pomegranate stems from the cultural and concurrent values they introduce and inherit. Native as a fruit from Iran that subsequently became a subject of delicacy (bearing the emblematic promise of eternal life and fertility - owing to their many seeds) that came to be domesticated and cultivated across vast areas of the world.

This exhibition space takes the shape and form of a laboratory, acting as a vehicle for multiple experiences and a plurality of voices to inject new dialogues and forms of life.