Elolo Bosoka
Elolo Bosoka (born in 1991) is a Ghanaian artist who lives and works between Accra and Kumasi. He appropriates everyday objects and elements from the urban environment to explore concepts of art and place, informality, economic exchange, materiality, and history.
Bosoka creates installations, short films, objects, drawings, and soft, transparent sculptures. He participated in the large-scale exhibition trilogy by blaxTARLINES KUMASI held at the Museum of Science and Technology in Accra since 2015, “The Gown Must Go to Town” (2015), “Cornfields in Accra” (2016), and “Orderly, Disorderly” (2017). He also contributed to the construction of all the blaxTARLINES KUMASI exhibitions. His first solo exhibition took place in 2018, titled “Lines, Planes and Ridges In-Between.” In addition to his involvement with blaxTARLINES KUMASI, he has taken part in other group exhibitions such as the “Chale Wote” street art festival (2016) and “YOUNG African ART” (2019), organized by YAG/garage in Pescara, Italy.
He works closely with blaxTARLINES KUMASI, the project space and contemporary art incubator of the Department of Painting and Sculpture at Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) in Ghana. He is currently a doctoral candidate in the Department of Painting and Sculpture at KNUST in Kumasi.
Flying Onions, 2024, onion bags, dimensions variable.
14.7212633,-17.44501 Painterly Objects 2022 Photograph printed on canvas 120 cm x 90 cm
6.69903 N, 1.62365 W. Painterly Objects 2023 120 cm x 90 cm Photograph printed on canvas
Flying Onions, 2024, onion bags, dimensions variable.