Serge Attukwei Clottey. Beyond the Skin

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Museu Tàpies presents the project “Beyond the Skin”, by Ghanaian artist Serge Attukwei Clottey.

Through his installations, sculptures and actions, Clottey invites us to reflect collectively and transversally about the environment and the global economy, marked by inequalities and contradictions, and the migrations that result from these.

The artist’s first project in Catalonia and Spain, entitled “Beyond the skin”, features an installation that will cover the front of the museum until December, as well as a public programme involving dialogue and collaboration with different communities living in Barcelona.

“Beyond the Skin”, a project curated by Imma Prieto, includes a range of actions and exhibits, starting with the major installation on the front of the Museu Tàpies, entitled “Afterlife Voyage”. It begins on Tuesday 2nd July at 6.30 pm with a public procession set up by the artist and entitled “Silent Steps, Dance, Memories Sound”, which will go round the centre of Barcelona to the Teatre Nacional de Catalunya with the collaboration of Periferia Cimarronas and einaidea Fundació Eina’s research and cultural programming platform.

“The Coal Men” is an action to be run by Clottey at the venue Periferia Cimarronas as part of the Grec festival. After the summer, the project will continue with a season of films devoted to the work of Sarah Maldoror and the international seminar Architectures of the Skin, from the Body to the Street.

“Beyond the Skin” has forged a system of alliances with different institutions and bodies in the city, including the Teatre Nacional de Catalunya, the Grec festival, the Periferia Cimarronas venue, einaidea Fundació Eina’s research and cultural programming platform, the Filmoteca de Catalunya and the Institut Français de Barcelone, among others.

Serge Attukwei Clottey. Beyond the Skin
July 3 – December 1, 2024
Museu Tàpies, Barcelona
Curator: Imma Prieto

[Image: Facade of Museu Tàpies intervened by the artist Serge Attukwei Clottey, with the installation “Afterlife Voyage”, from the “Beyond the Skin” project. Barcelona, ​​Catalonia, 2024 © Museu Tàpies. Photography: Eva Carasol, 2024.]