Artist Ibrahim Mahama On Freedom and Social Responsibility

EPISODE SUMMARY.

On this episode of ZEITGEIST 19, Ibrahim Mahama speaks with us about his deep research on communities, the relationship between culture and nature, his perspective on the role of the artist, creative freedom and more.

THE SPEAKER.

Ibrahim Mahama was born in Tamale, Ghana in 1987. A central feature of his artistic practice is the utilization and transformation of materials to explore themes of commodity, migration, colonialism, globalisation and economic exchange.

EPISODE NOTES.

ZEITGEIST 19 invites you to consider the current fraught and uncertain socio-cultural climate through the lens of ‘conscious’ art. An art that identifies the crisis and addresses it, that analyses and rethinks its social impact, whilst conveying weighty social and political co ...