oheneba
@iamoheneba
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artist | studio: @creccents | enquiries: [email protected]
Joined August 2013
“What matters is that in my own service of living, I have offered something, contributed something to the world. And if one person, even just one, takes something from it, I want to be at peace with that”
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If there's ever a point in this troubling life when you feel like you're sinking know that there is a lifeguard who walks on water and speaks peace to raging storms.
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New interview with @africanscolumn discussing my first exhibition in Italy at Shazar Gallery. https://t.co/0DLQ24dgRH
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The contemporary art world continually seeks voices that can translate global concerns through deeply personal yet universally accessible visual languages. Among them, Joshua Oheneba Takyi, a...
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The red painting
The duality of life becomes increasingly interesting to me by the day. Last week I could’ve sworn this red painting was the most difficult thing in the world, and just this morning, like magic, i get a dopamine boost every time i lay a stroke on the canvas
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No matter how isolated you are and how lonely you feel, if you do your work truly and conscientiously, unknown allies will come and seek you.
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And God will make a way so beautiful and unexpected that it will bring tears to your eyes, not from pain this time, but as a reminder that He never forgot you for a moment.
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The Silent Allegory of a Universal Chair, my first solo exhibition in Italy,” opened last month in Naples at Shazar Gallery. Featured work: Evidence of Things not seen. 2025 Oil, silkscreen paint on canvas
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Sometimes I remind myself that I almost skipped the party, that I almost went to a different college, that the whim of a minute could have changed everything and everyone Our lives, so settled, so specific, are built on happenstance. - Anna Quindlen, Every Last One
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I reflect a lot on playing the long game: this idea of labouring at seeds I may never see bloom, trusting that time and grace will carry them where I may not be able to
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Define yourself radically as one beloved by God. This is the true self. Every other identity is illusion.
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Fear is a false prophet who preaches calamity over capacity. be heretical: possibility is your ministry.
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Avoidance is not the cure, it is the culprit. do the damn thing inelegantly. gloriously.
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The first rule is to keep an untroubled spirit. The second is to look things in the face and know them for what they are.
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First half of the year taught me a lot about sitting still, looking closely, and paying attention to what we usually ignore.
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For the one who believes within, even if the whole world stands opposed, shall still walk in the fruit of their assumption.
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In all these forms of engagement a kind of purity of purpose must prevail. It cannot be a gimmick, it must at some level be true. Only then can we reach reflection, and finally, hopefully, epiphany. Chimamanda Ngozie Adichie Dream count. Author’s note
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The point of art is to look at the world and be moved by it, and then to engage in a series of attempts to clearly see that world, interpreting it, questioning it.
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Daddy Lumba’s catalogue is a long-form archive of Ghanaian life; the mood, the tone, the voice of a people evolving.
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