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Free exhibition
Curated by Bindi Vora
Exploring the relationship between body, image and space
This exhibition is currently in development at Autograph
Autograph
Rivington Place
London EC2A 3BA, UK
Autograph is developing the first major solo exhibition by visual artist Akosua Viktoria Adu-Sanyah. Residual Sky will explore rupture and repair as strategies for examining how images construct, fragment and withhold histories shaped by colonialism and diaspora.
Large-scale handprints are envisaged as vertical, totemic forms. At scale, the works explore the relationship between body, image and space, foregrounding the physicality of the photographic surface. Adu-Sayah’s practice engages with the ramifications of archival violence, material processes and the conditions through which images produce – and withhold – historical knowledge.
Akosua Viktoria Adu-Sanyah, tree (burning), 2026
(Right) Akosua Viktoria Adu-Sanyah, RESIDUAL SKY (Trowbridge II), 2026
(Left) Akosua Viktoria Adu-Sanyah, blind (second cycle, RESIDUAL SKY), 2026
Akosua Viktoria Adu-Sanyah, women, fire (handdeveloped iteration, female slave dungeon, Elmina Castle), 2026
Akosua Viktoria Adu-Sanyah (b. 1990, Bonn) is a German-Ghanaian artist based in Zurich working with photographic objects, process-based installation, and painting.
Recent solo exhibitions include no flowers at Centre Culturel Suisse Paris (2026), RESIDUAL SKY at Kunsthaus Glarus (2026), and Corner Dry Lungs at MMK Frankfurt (2024), alongside presentations at Art Basel Hong Kong and Foam Amsterdam. She is a recipient of the Swiss Art Award and several grants, and her works are held in public collections including Kunsthaus Zürich, MMK Frankfurt, and the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam. In 2026, she published her second artist book no flowers co-published by Centre Culturel Suisse Paris..
Residual Sky is co-commissioned by Autograph, London, and Deichtorhallen, Hamburg. It is curated by Nadine Isabelle Henrich for the Hamburg presentation and Bindi Vora for the London presentation.
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Banner image: Akosua Viktoria Adu-Sanyah, Yaa Manu, grandmother, Ashanti (handdeveloped iteration), 2026.
Preview, installation view courtesy Deichtorhallen: 1) Akosua Viktoria Adu-Sanyah, tree (burning), 2026. 2) (Right) Akosua Viktoria Adu-Sanyah, RESIDUAL SKY (Trowbridge II), 2026. (Left) Akosua Viktoria Adu-Sanyah, blind (second cycle, RESIDUAL SKY), 2026. 3) Akosua Viktoria Adu-Sanyah, women, fire (handdeveloped iteration, female slave dungeon, Elmina Castle), 2026.
Artist: Courtesy Akosua Viktoria Adu-Sanyah.
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