Larry Achiampong: A Letter, A Pledge

Stanley Picker Fellow Larry Achiampong’s solo show, A Letter, A Pledge, centres around two moving image works, processing the imprints of depression, inherited trauma, digital anxiety and Black Masculinity.

He will also showcase games and furniture fabricated in the workshops of Kingston School of Art, modelled on Oware games and an original Asante stool, which the artist’s mother brought over from Ghana. Achiampong’s films delicately unfurl the tensions of dislocation, lost kin and grief while placing the visitors in an environment filled with sculptural elements and games as well as karate mats, reflecting on the Okinawan karate’s ‘hard-soft style’.