Nyornuwofia Agorsor

  • Painter Musician
  • Ghana
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“"Never capture comfort and forget the laws. It’s the laws that maintain the comfort." My work dwells on these ideals. Whereas there is the tendency to seek the glory without the effort, I suggest that people should endeavor to do the opposite. I am interested in how to harness basic things in life and in our surroundings to create. This should mean that I very much engage contemporary concerns. We live in a time that everything is heavily dependent on technology. For this reason, there is the tendency for people to resort to short cuts. This is what I abhor. Whereas technology can help us to a certain extent, I also will not want technology to take away our culture and traditions. These are the universal values that give to us our humanity. It is a balance of these that I always seek. When I make paintings, I want all my reflections to have voice. I want my audiences to take up responsibilities, especially when they are in privileged positions. If we dwell too much on the comforts, we tend to become ingrates. We always take from the world and yet give nothing back. This is not healthy. It pushes our world out of symmetry. But in seeking symmetry, we also know that all the fingers are never the same. How then do we celebrate our differences as well as our similarities? How do we make this world the better place we want it to be even in our expressions?”

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Being originally an autodidact artist, Ghanaian Painter and Musician, Nyornuwofia Agorsor (B. 1983), supplemented her personally garnered skills with some studies at Kofi Agorsor’s studio. As an instrumentalist, song writer, Composer and Performer, she is also the vivacious lead vocalist of the Agorsor Band.

Her works glorify the African Knowledge System of education, which in its fullness, trains and tunes the mind in order to bring forth ones own creative genius. Nyornuwofia believes that there is an urgent need for Africa to change her servitude system of education, which according to her does little to encourage practicality, lacking the potential to nurture and grow the minds that will exploit and add value to our human and natural resources.

Employing mathematical and geometrical symbols, classroom spaces, intelligible and unintelligible texts, she captures, sometimes with humour or satire, the position of Africa today, Africa tomorrow, and Africa yesterday. All come in the guise of pure stretches of colour and drawings tinged with alluring childlike naiveté.


Credentials

2

Group exhibition
  • 2015
    • Vivid Colors of Africa
    • Illusium Museum, St. Petersburg
    • Leningrad
    • Russia
  • 2012
    • Colours and creativity
    • Lagos
    • Nigeria

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Solo exhibition
  • 2016
    • Universal
    • Steigenberger Hotel Business Bay
    • Dubai
    • United Arab Emirates