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Best known for his ambitious installations, in which he covers entire buildings with repurposed jute sacks, Mahama has for many years gathered materials abandoned through institutional decline in Ghana. Forged during the period of growing confidence in the 1960s and 1970s – when newly independent West African nations were imagining a way forward after British colonial rule – Mahama regards these objects as carriers of both optimism and failure. Relics of self-ruling Ghana’s shortcomings in delivering on its pledges to its people, Mahama’s salvaged materials reflect an attunement to ‘the voids …