One of the 37 invitees at the Dangerous Liaisons section of the current Venice Architecture Biennale, the Serge Attukwei Clottey Studio created an iteration on a project that its creator named Afrogallonism.
The installation is an abstract piece of monochrome tapestry composed of yellow tiles, hung on a mobile surface on water at the Arsenale. Why choosing a practitioner whose activity has so often been criticized by purists? Architecture Biennale curator Lesley Lokko made it clear how her Laboratory of the Future is not an educational enterprise. It won’t support trends, offer solutions, or give lectures.
It is, rather, a breaking point, an agent of change. Serge Attukwei Clottey is one agent of change, too. A total artist, Clottey cuts, pierces, assembles, and melts material from gallons, the yellow tanks that are ubiquitous to carry liquids around all over Africa. Serge Attukwei Clottey was born in Ghana in 1985. His art has been exhibited in all the most prestigious art events in the world.
