ART+FILM: Serwah Attafuah

Join multidisciplinary artist and musician Serwah Attafuah for a discussion on her work The Darkness Between the Stars.

Known for creating surreal cyber dreamscapes and Afrofuturistic artworks with contemporary themes, Serwah Attafuah will present a discussion on her work The Darkness Between the Stars, currently on display in ACMI Gallery 3 as the latest Mordant Family Commission.

Attafuah’s multidisciplinary practice includes digital painting, 3D animation, motion capture, digital animations and virtual reality.

In The Darkness Between the Stars, Attafuah weaves past, present and future into an Afrofuturist vision of resilience and reclamation across five screens. Female warriors rise from burning slave castles and shipwrecked colonial vessels, their glitch-patterned kente cloth celebrating Ghana’s matrilineal traditions.

The work explores the intersection of climate change, e-waste, the legacies of the slave trade, land rights and the resilience of West Africa’s Ashanti people, who originate from present-day Ghana.

About Art+Film

ACMI's ART+FILM program showcases short and feature-length films by leading Australian and international artists. With a focus on single-channel works that harness the unique conventions of cinema, the program comprises internationally significant works from the ever-expanding field of artist films.

Serwah Attafuah is the 2023 recipient of the Mordant Family Moving Image Commission for Young Australian Artists.

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.

Thanks to Haymes Paint for generously providing the Eggshell paint featured in The Darkness Between the Stars.