Jaa's research on El Anasui, Freeman and Lowe

El Anatsui (born 1944) is a Ghanaian sculptor active for much of his career in Nigeria.

Anatsui was born in Anyako, and trained at the College of Art, University of Science and Technology, in Kumasi, in central Ghana. He began teaching at the University of Nigeria, Nsukka, in 1975, and has become affiliated with the Nsukka group.

Anatsui's preferred media are clay and wood, which he uses to create objects based on traditional Ghanaian beliefs and other subjects. He has cut wood with chainsaws and blackened it with acetylene torches; more recently, he has turned to installation art. Some of his works resemble woven cloths such as kente cloth. Anatsui also incorporates uli and nsibidi into his works alongside Ghanaian motifs.

'Stray Light Grey' by justin lowe and jonah freeman


'stray light grey' is a full gallery installation on view at marlborough chelsea in new york by artist collaborators, justin lowe and jonah freeman. Depicted through the construction of multiple architectural settings, 'stray light grey' marks a unification of many of the thematic 
threads from previous projects into a sprawling sequence of interiors. 

Through a collection of fictional and historical narratives, the artists have composed an expansive, alternate world that re-imagines culture 
through subjects such as rogue science, psychedelic drugs, mega-conventions and hypertrophic urbanism. A network of corridors, 
chambers and passageways is configured into a spatial collage that gives a fragmented vision of a parallel metropolis. 
It feels as if the visitor has entered an alternate New York City feigned in a foreign country where the details have been lost in translation. 
The overall presentation is a system of architecture that forms an artwork in itself, an idea of the city as an awkward monument 
whose figurative identity is never fully materialised.