Untitled

In "Untitled" (2014), Mahama presents a commentary on the historical economic relationship established by Ghana with other countries, from the beginning of the postcolonial period to the contemporary era. The jute sacks, collected by the artist from the exchange markets in his country, were manufactured in Southeast Asia and used for the transportation of grains distributed to America and Europe. Mahama, in this sense, appropriates the material in a process of updating painting, understanding the bags as canvases and their material, marked by different tonalities and permeated by traces of the networks through which they move, akin to paint.