CALEB KWARTENG PRAH

Swapping dukes for bus drivers with his multimedia takes on Ghanaian working-class life, Caleb Kwarteng Prah is the painter and photographer putting an Afrocentric spin on art history

JAREH DAS

Caleb Kwarteng Prah brings photography and painting together in works inspired by everyday Ghanaian life. For Prah, the past provides a rich field for rethinking image-making in the present, particularly by paying attention to the conditions and forces which have shaped the understanding of Black African life and its representations. The Ghanaian artist’s practice is inspired by storytelling, and his process involves close dialogue with his community to inform the stories that he tells. Prah also gives visibility to those who have been overlooked: in his 2017 series, Dukes of Trotro, he appropriates a work by Italian Renaissance painter Piero della Francesca, which portrayed the Duke of Urbino and his wife in side profile staring at each other. Prah recasts the couple as trotro (Ghanaian minibus) drivers adopting the same…

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Dazed & Confused (Digital) - 1 Issue, Autumn 2023

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