UPCOMING EXHIBITION: Opening on Saturday April 18th at 6pm, Citizen Projects and AMY Projects present Constellations Within - A group exhibition of three women reflecting on the genesis of their art.
Across immeasurable distances and separated by epochs of time, stars exist independently. Yet from a particular vantage point on Earth, they align. Light that has travelled for millennia converges in the present moment, and we recognize a figure.
In this exhibition, the works function as constellations of thought and feeling. They gather disparate impressions, fragments of stories and bring them into alignment through painting and collage. What appears as a recognisable motif is the result of accumulated distances: between artist and subject.
This exhibition features work by Ashiata Shaibu-Salami (b. Nigeria), Efia Serwah Barning (b. Ghana) and Rouquaiya Yerima (b. Togo)
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SYNTHETIC DREAMS features Bubu Ogisi, Tamimbé Bourdanné, and Mamadou Ballo — exploring space through ritual installation and masquerade culture. Conceived as a sacred grove, the gallery echoes spaces traditionally reserved for masquerades, portals to our spiritual realm.
Blending human and animal morphologies, the pieces draw from African mask traditions, where exaggerated features protect and guard. Each work exists as a fragment, activated and completed through the viewer’s presence bridging the scientific and man-made present with expansive spiritual futures.
On view until 7th, March 2026 at Citizen Project Space.
Gallery hours: Wed–Sat, 11am–6pm.
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Ivorian artist Mamadou Ballo traverses themes of genesis and creation, manifesting spiritual inquiry through the human form.
By repurposing found and discarded media, Ballo orchestrates a dialogue between matter and spirit, centering the feminine body as a profound nexus of life force.
His practice deeply investigates animist cosmologies, positioning the metamorphosis of materials as a sacred artistic ritual.
‘Synthetic Dreams’ is on view until 7th March, 2026.
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As part of Synthetic Dreams, photographer Tamibé Bourdanné reflects on the creative process and collaborative dialogue behind the exhibition @tamibebourdanne
His reflections trace how place, intuition, and shared authorship shaped the work, from time spent in Mamadou Ballo’s atelier to spontaneous moments that blur the line between imagination and lived reality.
Synthetic Dreams is currently on view at Citizen Projects Space.
Gallery Open Hours:
Wed-Sat, 11am - 6pm
Still available for purchase.
For the first time, Citizen Projects limited-edition posters remain open for pre-order. Produced in connection with Resisting Forgetfulness: The Aesthetics of Afrobeats, curated by Whitney C. Ernest, the prints reflect on cultural memory, sound, and visual expression.
Each poster is priced at 1,000 GHS per print.
Posters are currently available, purchase via the link in @citizenprojectspace ’s bio.
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At the Museum of the African Diaspora (@moadsf ) in San Francisco, David Alabo’s bronze sculpture series Future Relics continues to be presented as part of UNBOUND: Art, Blackness and the Universe, curated by Key Jo Lee (@keyjolee ).
The expansive group exhibition marks MoAD’s 20th Anniversary and the launch of its renewed mission: to place contemporary art and artists of the African Diaspora at the center of the global cultural conversation.
UNBOUND brings together works spanning time, material, and medium, including 20th-century Dogon sculptures from Mali, Lorna Simpson’s Blue Turned Temporal (2019), David Alabo’s digital works and bronze sculptures, and Rashaad Newsome’s holographic African mask.
The exhibition remains on view through August 16, 2026.
Photographs by Josef Jacques, courtesy of MoAD
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Opening on Saturday 24th, Synthetic Dreams 2.0 features sculptures by Mamadou Ballo, the Ivorian sculptor and painter whose practice forms a central collaboration within the exhibition.
@m_ballo67 works across sculpture and painting, using discarded and everyday materials to explore questions of origin, creation, and spiritual genesis through the human form. His work centres the feminine body as a source of life, growth, and spiritual force, drawing from animist and cosmological belief systems.
Rooted in a long-standing inquiry into material transformation, Ballo’s practice positions making as both a spiritual and artistic act — bridging ancestral knowledge with contemporary form.
ARTIST PROFILE // Ahead of the opening of Synthetic Dreams opening on January 24, we spotlight the practices of Bubu Ogisi and Tamibé Bourdanné.
@bubuogisi works across wearable art, spatial design, and performance, using recycled materials and heritage techniques to explore animism, spirituality, and material memory within contemporary cultural contexts.
@tamibebourdanne is a London-based photographer whose practice spans documentary, street, and fashion photography, engaging space, architecture, and human presence as central elements of image-making.
Together, their collaboration forms part of a photography series and performance titled Synthetic Dreams, exploring animism, spirituality, and the relationship between ancestral belief systems and our contemporary, man-made material world.
Synthetic Dreams opens Saturday, January 24th from 5 PM at Citizen Projects Space.
UPCOMING EXHIBTION // SYNTHETIC DREAMS 2.0
We are thrilled to announce our upcoming exhibition featuring a photography series and performance by Nigerian born artist Bubu Ogisi (@bubuogisi ) and London based photographer Tamibé Bourdanné (@tamibebourdanne )
Synthetic Dreams 2.0 is the second installment of an ongoing collaboration between the artists - Exploring animism, spirituality and the relationship to our contemporary material world. How did synthetic fibres become so pervasive? The masquerade character, traditionally adorned in heirloom natural fibers and tasked with warding off evil, is fashioned out of “unnatural, synthetic fibres” - suggesting the passage of man-made materials through the portal into our spiritual world.
This body of work in collaboration with Ivorian sculptor Mamadou Ballo, presents fantastic images of masquerades in cardboard, plastic, and polyester fibres and suggests a permeation of our manufactured and highly processed world into our dreams and psyche.
Join us this Saturday from 5pm for the sunset performance.
We would like to thank everyone who attended the closing event of CITIZEN PROJECTS and WCE present: Resisting Forgetfulness, held in collaboration @orokoradio .
The exhibition, curated by @wcedoesart of @wcehosts , concluded with an evening bringing together the exhibition, music, and community.
Our thanks to @showdemcamp for presenting a listening session of their critically acclaimed album AFRIKA MAGIK, and to the DJs from the Oroko Radio Collective for the closing program @alexritaa@kxzxxmx@dede.__@errol.and
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Resisting Forgetfulness: The Aesthetics of Afrobeat (s) opened on December 20 at Citizen Project Space.
The gallery acknowledges and thanks the participating artists, panel contributors, and sponsors whose contributions shaped both the exhibition and the accompanying public programme.
The exhibition remains on view until January 9, with an exhibition walkthrough scheduled for January 3, from 2–4 PM.
Limited-edition exhibition posters remain available.
Purchase link in bio.
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For the first time, limited-edition Citizen Projects posters are now available for pre-order.
Part of Resisting Forgetfulness: The Aesthetics of Afrobeats, curated by Whitney C Ernest, these prints celebrate cultural memory, sound, and visual expression.
1,000 GHS per print · Limited edition of 20 available.
Purchase via the link tree in @citizenprojectspace IG bio
