Join Us! on Sunday, 26th April for “A Love Letter with Teeth”, an upcoming solo exhibition by Ewuresi Archer, curated by Nana Yaa Poku Asare-Boadu.
@lalanana7 What begins in beauty does not stay there. Drawn to Busua by the sea, the light, and the seduction of village life, Archer entered through longing. What followed was something more fractured: conversations, debris, humor, exhaustion, intrusion, contradiction, and the slow collapse of the postcard image.
Her paintings, prints, and crochet-based sculptural forms hold these encounters in all their mess. Waste gathers. Memory sticks. Men swarm like flies. Beauty never gets to remain innocent for long.
In A Love Letter with Teeth, Archer gives us Busua as lived experience rather than fantasy, a place where pleasure and unease, intimacy and disturbance, tenderness and rot sit side by side.
Archer began her artistic journey at Akosombo International School, where she studied visual art and was introduced to traditional ceramics, painting, and graphic design. She later moved to the United States to attend the Cleveland Institute of Art, where she earned her BFA in Painting with an emphasis in Printmaking and a concentration in Creative Writing in 2022.
She was awarded first prize in the Realism category at the inaugural Paul and Norma Tikkanen Painting Prize that same year. Across her practice,
@ewuresi.archer Archer places Ghanaian culture at the center, celebrating its vibrancy while remaining attentive to the tensions of its coexistence with Western influence.
