Serge Attukwei Clottey GHANAIAN, b. 1985

Serge Attukwei Clottey unites his vibrant multidisciplinary practice with a single motif: the yellow gallon container, a common fixture in his hometown of Accra. Across sculpture, photography, installation, and performance, Clottey has melted, drilled, stitched, and repurposed the plastic jugs. He’s paired them with other materials including jute sacks and discarded tires in his assemblages and collages, and he’s transformed them into props and set pieces in his performances. Clottey attended the Ghanatta College of Art and Design and has exhibited in New York, Los Angeles, Accra, Berlin, Dakar, and elsewhere. His work belongs to collections including the Nubuke Foundation in Accra, Modern Forms in the U.K., and the World Bank Art Program. Clottey dubs his practice “Afrogallonism” after his material of choice, which has a unique relationship to trade and water distribution in Ghana.