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'The Darkness Between the Stars', Serwah Attafuah, 2024, installation view
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Fri 04 Apr 2025

Making The Darkness Between the Stars with Serwah Attafuah

Art Australia Craft Representation Talk
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Learn about the characters and construction of Serwah Attafuah's screen-based Afrofuturist artwork.

ACMI Curator Jenna Rain Warwick sat down with artist Serwah Attafuah to talk about The Darkness Between the Stars – Attafuah's Afrofuturist vision of resilience and reclamation now showing at ACMI in Gallery 3.

This talk was recorded on Thursday 20 March 2025 at ACMI.

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The Darkness Between the Stars

Australia, 2025

The Mordant Family Moving Image Commission for Young Australian Artists is created in partnership with Professor Cav. Simon Mordant AO and Catriona Mordant AM, John Allsopp from Web Directions, and ACMI, 2024.

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