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- Space installation
- AHOOBAA - Dedicated to the Ancestresses and Ancestors
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- Exhibition opening We 21st June 2017 7 p.m.
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- Exhibition 22nd June - end of 2017
- Talk with the Joe Sam-Essandoh and the curator Hannimari Jokinen
- Su 17th September 2017 3 p.m.
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- Altonaer Museum
- Museumstraße 23
- Hamburg-Altona (S tube Altona)
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- Opening hours
- Tu - Su 10 a.m. - 5 p.m.
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- Entrance fees
- EUR 8,50, reduced price EUR 5, groups EUR 6
- www.altonaermuseum.de (in German)
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- In his space installation AHOOBAA, the Ghanaian artist Joe Sam-Essandoh brings to life mask objects made of diverse discarded materials. His assemblages consist of used and worn-out found objects, traces of luxury delicacies from European breakfast tables, materials from the packaging industry and civilisational trash.
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- Borrowed from nature are calabash, wild boar tusks, cow and goat horn; from the West African coast, cowrie and coconut shells; as products of Ghanaian artisans, jute rope, wooden combs, Kuba Raffia cloth and wickerwork; referring to the robbed natural resources of Africa, golden surfaces, copper and tin; and remembering the forced and contract labor in the plantations, palm oil seeds, coffee and cocoa beans.
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- Sam-Essandoh's assemblages point to products and raw materials that are exported from Africa to western countries. They admonish us reminding of the "colonial wares" and of the raw materials that this continent is so rich of and that are, to this day, being plundered by the industrial countries. With eyes open wide, the masks stare back at the viewer, entering into a dialog and questioning what the future holds.
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- The mask objects will be presented in the Altonaer Museum as an intervention in the permanent collection. Models of ships that sailed from the Altona harbor to the world oceans during the 18th and 19th centuries are displayed in the museum's section on merchant shipping. With Sam-Essandoh's space installation, the museum recalls an important facet of Altona's town and trading history: the participation of Altona shipowners and merchants in the transatlantic trade. The museum sees the intervention as a first step in the pending new conception of its permanent collection where Altona's role in the Danish colonial history has not yet been thematised.
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- Guest book exhibition AHOOBAA by Joe Sam-Essandoh (in German)
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- Interview with Joe Sam-Essandoh (in German)
- taz, Petra Schellen. 09/11/2017
- Das Erbe des Kolonialismus
- "Die Kakao-Maske ist ein Protest"
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