Jump to main content (press Enter)Jump to the footer (press Enter)
Urbane Künste Ruhr

Breadcrumbs

  1. Home
  2. Artists
  3. Profile

sakasaka

The artists Adjoa Armah and Sel Kofiga work together artistically under the name sakasaka, which refers to the creative heritage of Adjoa Armah's parents and the Ghanaian Akan word for centipede. 

Adjoa Armah, through her exploration of archives and the photographic image, installations, writing, and site-specific pedagogical experiments, investigates the narratives carried within the body and the silences of memory. Sel Kofiga uses performance, textiles, film and image-making to probe the agency of non-living objects and the spatial experiences of racialized subjects.

Together, their research-based practice, interrogates how grief, survival, and resilience are metabolised across generations and inscribed onto place, proposing new ways to engage with fragmented histories, rituals, and the materials and spaces that bind them. Armah and Kofiga have been practising as artists since 2018 and 2014 respectively, with their independent work being shown and published internationally.

Projects

Wesel

The Grand Snail Tour will be accompanied by literary, photographic and illustrative artists, who will collect impressions and reflections from the same city at the same time as the Trailer is there and put them into visual or literary form. The result is a paratext on the three-year tour, a travel chronicle in the form of a kaleidoscope of stories, connections and snapshots in the 53 cities of the region, revealing the simultaneities and non-simultaneities of the Grand Snail Tour.

Wesel von Amina Falah

A slender tree in the forest, with a white ribbon tied around its trunk. Sunlight filters through the leaves.

© Amina Falah

A large cylindrical industrial tank behind a chain-link fence. A red container stands in the foreground.

© Amina Falah

A turquoise telescope labeled "Galaxy" on a bridge in Wesel, overlooking the Rhine, surrounded by love locks.

© Amina Falah

An indoor courtyard with a koi pond, overshadowed by a large green plant. The water reflects the building's glass ceiling.

© Amina Falah

Artist

Open Artsit

©Amina Falah

Amina Falah

Amina Falah is a designer and photographer. Her work sheds light on everyday life and the stories of the people around her, with a focus on social issues.

View