Kwaku Yaro: Son of Man, Can These Bones Live?

Rooted in the lived realities of Accra, Yaro’s practice engages with materials shaped by circulation, migration, and survival. Found objects such as second-hand clothing, plastic materials, and domestic remnants are treated not as symbols of lack, but as carriers of lived presence and material truth.

Central to the exhibition is the Ghana Must Go bag, reimagined as a second skin marked by memory and movement. Sculptural works form a familial constellation, with gold-toned bronze arms subtly referencing Ghana’s history as the former Gold Coast. Alongside these, works on paper and woven polypropylene mats introduce rhythms of individuality, rest, and gathering, allowing figure and ground to merge.

Son of Man, Can These Bones Live? marks a moment of clarity in Yaro’s practice, asserting endurance, continuity, and direction through familiar materials transformed by care and attention.