Episode 7: Artist -Adelaide Damoah: On authenticity, empowerment and vulnerability changing your own narrative

SACRED ART TEMPLE podcast

On this episode of THE WORK Interview, I have a honest conversation of what it means to be a woman in this time and age, how we redifine and break down what rising means, when all odds are against you.

How through our personal expression, really saves us through empowering ourselves to take our stories back, changing narrative in a world and history that has put us into labelled boxes for far to long. Adelaide Damoah, shares her voice in a convincing talk on how there need to be created access and visibility into the elitist art world, but most importantly when we realize our own power to create our own platforms, when we break down the barriers that stops us from raising our voices, we become more powerful than ever. We become what was never given to us, and like this, we break free from what seemed to hold us back all along.

Adelaide Damoah (RWA, FRSA) is a British artist of Ghanaian descent working at the intersection of painting and performance within the context of colonialism, identity, sexuality and spirituality.

Of her current performance work, Damoah says:

“I am interested in generating a spontaneous communi(cati)on between myself and an audience using a performance in which I function as a channel by which a recorded history of what was previously known but became unknown in the past becomes uncannily known again in the present, only to become unknown again at the end of the performance..”

Damoah’s current practice involves using her body as a “living paintbrush” to paint or print onto various surfaces. The artist works with photographs and text later in the creation of the work. Damoah was initially inspired by a desire to subvert Yves Klein’s “Anthropometries” series and engage in live performances as the first part of her creative process- body printing and writing. Damoah is interested in the use of recorded history to generate a spontaneous response. Where the previously known becomes unknown and becomes known again. The uncanny- the familiar within the familiar, or the unfamiliar within the familiar. Through her performances, she is the channel by which the previously unknown becomes known again.

Read more about Adelaide Demoah on her website:

www.adelaidedamoahart.com

IG: @adelaidedamoah

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