Ekow Eshun

Ekow Eshun (b sẽn dog yʋʋmd 1968 wã, kiuug rasem 27 wã) yaa Britãni wã gʋlsd, sɛba sɛba, sɛb sɛb sẽn get bũmbã la sɛb sẽn wilgd bũmbã.

A Eshun yɩɩ nin-kãseng sẽn yɩ taoor soab n paas Britãni wã nebã sʋka. A yɩɩ Britani wã seb-kãseng a yembr pipi nin-bil sẽn yaa nin-bil n yiis seb-kãngã (Arena Magazine yʋʋmd 1997) https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/the-face-of-british-style-interview-ekow-eshun-1270535.html la a kell n yɩɩ nin-bil ning sẽn yaa nin -bil n yiis bũmb ning sẽn yaa seb-kãseng sẽn yaa nin naabã, sẽn yaa Londr nin-bil nins sẽn yaa nin n tʋmd ne seb-kãens.https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2005/mar/13/art1 

A yaa "kultural polymath" ne The Guardian,  a yɩɩ yʋʋm kobs-gĩnd wʋsg sẽn loogã pʋgẽ, a gʋlsa sɛb, a wilga tele-radio la radio filim-rãmb, a ningda mak-rãmbã, la a kõ-b sõssã.https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/04/arts/design/in-the-black-fantastic-london.html

A Eshun yɩɩ b sẽn yãtẽ wã n wilg b sẽn yãgdẽ b sẽn yãendẽ,https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2022/jul/03/in-the-black-fantastic-review-hayward-gallery-london-spectacular-from-first-to-last b sẽn yãdẽ la b sẽn yãndẽ wã. B sẽn wilg tɩ b yaa "Spectakle" wã, b sẽn wilg tɩ "Spectal" wã yaa "Spectacular" sẽn yit pipi n tãag saabã.https://www.standard.co.uk/culture/exhibitions/in-the-black-fantastic-review-nick-cave-ekow-eshun-b1008769.html Bãngr ning b sẽn boond tɩ The Evening Standard yeelame: "Tõnd pa tõe n paam yɩɩr sẽn yaa sõma n yɩɩd yʋʋm-kãngã ye.https://www.london.gov.uk/programmes-strategies/arts-and-culture/current-culture-projects/fourth-plinth-trafalgar-square/fourth-plinth-winners-2022-and-2024

 A Biografi 
A Ekow Eshun rogame Lɔndr, Angletɛɛr soolmẽ wã. A zakã rãmb yaa a Fante sẽn yit Gana. A ba wã ra yaa Kwame Nkrumah poorẽ soaba, la a ra tʋmd Gana Komisɛɛr-kãsengã pʋgẽ, sẽn be Londẽ wã, a sẽn wa n lʋɩ sodaas-poliisi wã naam-kẽemdã pʋgẽ yʋʋmd 1966 tʋʋlg kiuugã pʋgẽ.

Baa a Eshun sẽn da yaa bi-bɩɩga yʋʋm a tãab (1971-1974) sẽn zĩnd Akkra wã, a bɩɩ Kingsbury, Londõ-Wedg soolmẽ wã. https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/reviews/black-gold-of-the-sun-by-ekow-eshun-752445.htmlA kẽnga Kingsbury High School sẽn be Lõndõ-Wedg soolmẽ wã, n yaool n karem siglgã la politik Londõ Ekonomiya Lekollẽ (LSE).http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/newsnight/review/1926609.stmhttp://www.davidrowan.com/2005/03/evening-standard-ekow-eshun-profile.html A sẽn da be LSE wã, a sak n sak n yiisda karengã The Beaver wã.https://digital.library.lse.ac.uk/collections/list/collections/17https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2010/aug/28/ekow-eshun-guardian-interviewhttps://www.theguardian.com/culture/2011/jan/11/gregor-muir-ica-chief?INTCMP=SRCH 

A Eshun yɩɩ London siglgã siglgã taoor soaba yʋʋmd 2005 n tãag yʋʋmd 2010 sẽn zĩnd a Zeova Kaset rãmbã siglgã pʋgẽ.  https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2010/aug/27/ica-eshun-ekow-yentob-quit A sẽn wa n yaa taoor soaba, nebã sẽn da be wã paasame 38% n yi n ta 40000 la b tall n kẽng n kẽng n tɩ moonẽ.https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006qh6g 

A Eshun yɩɩ sẽn get-a bũmbã yelle, a sẽn get a BBC Radio 4 radio wã pʋgẽ, la a sẽn get BBC Two wã pʋgẽ. https://www.standard.co.uk/news/television-and-radio-6625694.html A yɩɩ televiziõ piblisite wã pʋgẽ yʋʋmd 2009 wã.https://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/latestnews/2018/christmas-university-challenge A leb n yɩɩ naoor wʋsgo, More4 talk show ning sẽn yaa "The Last Word" pʋgẽ. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00106bz Yʋʋmd 2019 wã, a yɩɩ London School of Economics sull taoor soaba, a sẽn be kiris-nedã karẽn-biisã pʋgẽ. https://www.theguardian.com/books/2005/jul/09/featuresreviews.guardianreview20 Yʋʋmd 2021 kiuugã, a gʋlsa la a wilg-a filim a yembr sẽn yaa pʋga a tã n wilg BBC Radio 4 sẽn gomd sẽn yɩ yɩllg yell. http://ekoweshun.com/about/

 A Curator 
Yʋʋmd 2015 tɛka, a Ekow Eshun tʋma a toor sẽn pa tar sor n maand yɩɩr tẽns wʋsg pʋsẽ, n get rasã la ned sẽn yaa a soaba yelle. 

Wakatã yaa wakat fãa masã. A Eshun wilga a sẽn na n maan bũmb ning sẽn na yɩl n kɩt tɩ b ningd a sẽn na yɩl tɩ b maan bũmb ning fãa sẽn na yɩl t'a wilg b sẽn na n maand bũmb ningã.https://www.npg.org.uk/whatson/exhibitions/2024/the-time-is-always-now Yaa b sẽn zãms b sẽn get b sẽn get nin-bu-rãmbã ne b sẽn get-b b sẽn getẽ wã. B wilga b sẽn get a karen-bi-rãmbã sẽn be Afrika wã, a Michael Armitage, a Lubaina Himid, a Kerry James Marshall, a Toyin Ojih Odutola la a Amy Sherald yelle. Sẽn paas tɩ b bao n bãngẽ tɩ b sẽn yãedẽẽẽ yaa Zuif-rãmbã, b baooda b sẽn pa yãendẽ wã, la b bao n bãnga b sẽn tall n wilg b sẽn maandẽ wã, b sẽn maand bũmb ninsã, la b sẽn get b sẽn getẽ wã. B na n wilga b bõn-naandsã Plymouth, b sẽn na n wilg b sẽn na yɩl n tõog n kẽng Etazĩni wã.

A Eshon sẽn get a sẽn get a Zeova wã yell n wilg a sẽn get bũmb ning sẽn be a zugã. A wilga a sẽn getẽ wã yʋʋmd 2022 t'a Wilgd a Zeova wã. B sẽn wilg tɩ b yaa "Spectakle" wã, b sẽn wilg tɩ "Spectal" wã yaa "Spectacular" sẽn yit pipi n tãag saabã.A The Evening Standard yeelame: "Bãmb pa tõe n maan yɩɩr n yɩɩg rẽ yʋʋm-kãngã ye".  B leb n kẽngame n kẽng Rotterdam Kunsthal. 

A Eshun sẽn na n tũ a sebr ning a sẽn boond tɩA Black Fantastic wã

, a maana filim dãmb sẽn tar bõn-naands sẽn wilgdẽ tɩ b sẽn beẽ wã yaa Zuif-rãmbã n tũud ne bãngrã, mitã la Afrofuturism wã. https://www.bfi.org.uk/interviews/black-fantastic-conversation-with-ekow-eshunhttps://www.somersethouse.org.uk/whats-on/we-are-history

Tõnd yaa siglgã, yaa sull wilg-rɩk a ye sẽn be London Somerset House wã pʋgẽ  sẽn kõt ninsaalb tagsg sẽn yaa toor ne taab tẽngã zugu, n wilg b sẽn get taab sẽn yaa to-to ne rũndã-rũndã saagdgã la tẽn-bɛdã sẽn paẽ wã.https://www.timeout.com/london/things-to-do/revealed-time-out-londons-2021-best-of-the-city-award-winners A Eshun sẽn wilg-a wã kɩtame tɩ b paam n kõ-a yʋʋmdã kɩbar ning Time Out London sẽn kõ yʋʋmdã pʋgẽ.

Afrika yam sẽn yaa bũmb ning b sẽn maandã, yaa vaeesg sẽn wilgd tɩ b sẽn maan n get Afrɩka foto wã yaa wakat paalga. Afrika State of Mind tigsa foto-yãkr sẽn yit Afrika wã fãa pʋgẽ, sẽn tar makr ne Maghreb la Sahara tẽn-bɛdã.https://www.nae.org.uk/event/africa-state-of-mind/https://www.moadsf.org/event/virtual-tour-africa-state-of-mind-part-1 http://www.rencontres-arles.com//en/expositions/view/982/africa-state-of-mindYaa fotograafã sẽn maan yʋʋm piig sẽn loogã la b sẽn maand b sẽn na n bãng tɩ b sẽn maand fotograafbã sẽn be tẽn-kãnga zugã baooda "Africanism" sẽn na yɩl n wilg tɩ Afrɩka yaa zĩiga sẽn yaa yĩns wɛɛngẽ wala zĩig sẽn yaa yĩng pʋgẽ.https://thamesandhudson.com/africa-state-of-mind-contemporary-photography-reimagines-a-continent-9780500545164 A sɩngame n yik n be New Art Exchange wã sẽn be Nottingham wã,  n yaool n kẽng MOAD San Francisco, 2020  la Rencontres des Arles, 2021 . https://thephotographersgallery.org.uk/whats-on/made-you-look-dandyism-and-black-masculinity Afrika wã sẽn yaa bũmb ning sẽn maand nebã wã yaa sebr b sẽn yiis ne a Ekow Eshun ne a Thames la a Hudson wã.https://www.wallpaper.com/art/dandyism-and-masculinity-exhibition-opens-at-the-photographers-gallery

 A Gulsgo 
A Eshun sẽn gʋls a sẽn pa maand bõn-naandsã sebr ning sẽn yaa "Sõngã sãnem sẽn yaa zĩ-bil sẽn yaa zĩiga: a sẽn baood a roogo Angletɛɛr la Afirik pʋgẽ" wã, sẽn yi yʋʋmd 2005 wã, gomda Gãna, Gãna kʋdemdã, la ned sẽn yaa ned ning a sẽn yaa to-to la a sẽn yaa ned sẽn pa a yembr wã yelle.  A Margaret Busby sẽn da get sebr ning sẽn yaa New Statesman wã pʋgẽ wã yeelame: "A sẽn tar a bi-ribl sẽn tar sãnem sakẽ, a sẽn maan ne a Chris Ofili sẽn naanã, a baooda n leok sokrã: 'Yãmb yita yɛ?' A Eshun sẽn baood a roogo la a sẽn yaa a soaba, wakat ninga, yaa toog ne-a, a sẽn gomd a sẽn pa tõe n welg a toore, a sẽn pa na n bãng a sẽn na n maan to-to wã yelle. A sẽn gʋls-a wã yaa "Wẽnnaam sãnemã ka be a pʋgẽ ye".  A "Wãn-sik sãnem" ra yaa a "Wãn sãnem" ning b sẽn yãk n kõ a Orwell ning ning ning sẽn paam-a wã nagrã yʋʋmd 2006 pʋgẽ. https://www.newstatesman.com/node/162178

A Hamish Hamilton sẽn yaa Britãni wã sɛbã sɛbã sɛb tigisda a Eshun sebrã sẽn yaa "Sẽn-yɩdgã" wã hakɩɩka, a sẽn wilg tɩ yaa "sẽn-yɩda ne pãng wʋsgo, sẽn tar yam wʋsgo" sẽn na n bãngẽ tɩ b yaa nin-sabls sẽn yaa nin-tɩrsã".https://brittlepaper.com/2021/03/ekow-eshun-author-of-africa-state-of-mind-has-a-new-book-coming-out/ B na n yiis-a-la yʋʋm 2024 soabã pʋgẽ, n lebg b sẽn tõe n gʋls-b to-to, b sẽn na n tall-b to wã, la b na n yiis b sẽn tõe fãa n gʋls-ba.

 A Seb-ramba 
A "Black Fantastic" yaa sebr sẽn tar bõn-naands wʋsg sẽn naag taab n naag taab n tar Afrika tẽn-zẽmsã me me me me la b sẽn maand b mens n get b sẽn yaa bõn-naandse la b sẽn tagsd bũmb ninsã. B sẽn pa tar Afrofuturism la b pa tar magik realism ye, la b sẽn be b meng be-be-be-tẽngã pʋgẽ wã, b sẽn boond tɩ "Nedẽ Fantastik" wã kɩtame tɩ b bãng tɩ b getame tɩ b sẽn getẽ tɩ b sẽn yaa nin-buiidã la b sẽn get b sẽn get bũmb ninsã yaa nin-wẽnsã sẽn be dũniyã gill zugã. B getame tɩ nin-wẽns sẽn getẽ wã la b sẽn maandẽ wã pa tõe n bãng tɩ b sẽn tagsdẽ wã yaa nin-tɩrs sẽn getẽ ye. Sebrã pʋgẽ, a Eshun gʋlsame n sɩng sõssã, la a Eshun, a Kameelah L. Martin ne a Michelle D. Komandɛɛrã sõssã. 

Afrika wã sẽn yaa bũmb ning sẽn kɩt tɩ b tagsdẽ wã yaa kɩbay sẽn kɩt tɩ nebã tagsdẽ tɩ b pa tõe n maan bũmb a ye.https://www.impressions-gallery.com/shop/pre-order-africa-state-of-mind-contemporary-photography-reimagines-a-continent-by-ekow-eshun// A Eshun sẽn pa get Afirik sẽn da be tẽns a taab soolmẽ wã ne a sẽn get zĩigã bɩ a sẽn get a zĩ-tẽnsã yell ye, a wilga Afirik nebã tagsg zĩis a naasã: tẽns sẽn yaa kʋɩl-n-tɩrsã, tẽn-tẽnsã, la b sẽn get b sẽn get bũmb ninsã, la b wilg tɩ b pa get bũmb nins sẽn be Afirik soolmẽ wã ye.

A Eshun maana sɛb wʋsg n yiisd sɛb wʋsg.https://delmonicobooks.com/book/duro-olowu-seeing/ A gʋlsa sebr a ye sẽn boond t'a "Seeing" sẽn yit Duro Olowu nengẽ.  A Eshun gomda Olowu tʋʋm-kãnga sẽn be Brãtã neb sẽn yaa bẽdse la Afro-Caribiẽ rãmb sẽn yaa b naanã pʋgẽ yelle.https://wellcomecollection.org/works/j5vdjt57 A leb n sõnga nin-buiidã tɩ b bãng b sẽn tõe n maan to-to wã.

Kibsa la zʋrnallã la zʋrnãnga sẽn gomd bũmb ning sẽn pa be tẽnsã zugã

A Eshun yaa gʋlsd sẽn tar pãng n maand vaeesg sẽn yaa sõma, sẽn tar yõod ne nebã, n maand bũmb nins sẽn yaa to-to wã. A gʋlsa sɛb sẽn tar naam tɩ yaa New York Times, Financial Times la The Guardian, la a yaa Wallpaper sɛb-gʋlsda. Wala makre, a gʋlsa a Basquiat yell New York Times pʋgẽ yʋʋmd 2017 wã pʋgẽ. https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/22/arts/design/basquiat-barbican-london.html

A sẽn sɩng a tʋʋm sɩngrẽ wã, a sẽn yaa karengã yel-gʋlsda sõngo, la sẽn wa n lebg karengã seb-gʋlsd a ye, a Eshun gʋlsa kareng sẽn tar pãng n vaeesd karengã, a sẽn tar naamã, a rasmã la a sẽn toeemda rũndã-rũndã Britanni wã, la a sõsda ne karengã neb sẽn sɩng ne Prince la Bjork n tãag Neneh Cherry la Hilary Mantel. Yʋʋmd 1996 sa-pakrã sɩngrẽ, a Eshun sõsga ne a Prince a Paisley Park sẽn be Minneapolis wã zakẽ wã. https://theface.com/archive/prince-the-face-archive-emmancipation-paisley-park

 A sen kot lahbay to-to 
Dãk Mater: Afro-Tõndg kibay (BBC4, 2022) A Eshun sẽn wilg filimã yaa filim sẽn boond tɩ Dark Matter: A History of the Afro-tõndg (BBC4, 2022).  Yaa Jean-Michel Basquiat n tãag a Grace Jones sẽn zãmsd neb nins sẽn yaa zoensã sẽn tũnugd ne bãngrã kibayã n vaees b zoensã kibayã la b get b sẽn na n maan beoog-daar toor-toorã. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hFTTJIbUpSY

A White Mischief (BBC Radio 4, 2021)

A Echeun sẽn be BBC Radio 4 radio pʋga, a sẽn boond tɩ White Mischief wã pʋgẽ, a wilgda sẽn yitẽ wã la a sẽn maan to-to tɩ pa tõe n bãng a sẽn tõe n maan to- to wã. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0010ndy

 Episode 1: The background hum
 Episode 2: Kind of nightmarish
 Episode 3: Dream for a moment

D sã n bao n bãng Atlantik Zũuni wã (Tate, 2021)

Sẽn na yɩl n tõog n tõog n bãng sẽn yaa to-to wã, a goma "Sẽn-soaba" sẽn yaa "Sẽn na n yɩ-a-to wã" yelle.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RrRbLJBDkSg

 A tuuma 

 Seb-ramba 
 In the Black Fantastic, Thames and Hudson, 2022.https://thamesandhudson.com/in-the-black-fantastic-9780500024621
 Africa State of Mind: Contemporary Photography Reimagines a Continent, Thames and Hudson, 2020.
 Black Gold of the Sun: Searching for home in England and Africa, Hamish Hamilton, 2005.https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/54468/black-gold-of-the-sun-by-ekow-eshun/9780141010960

 B sen yak a seb sana 
 "'I Suck at Love': Nas, Jay-Z and Black Male Vulnerability", in The Culture: Hip Hop & Contemporary Art in the 21st Century, Asma Naeem, 2023.Naeem, Asma, ed. (8 August 2023). The Culture: Hip Hop & Contemporary Art in the 21st Century. Gregory Miller & Company. ISBN 978-1-941366-54-7.
 The New African Portraiture, in The New African Portraiture: Shariat Collections, Walther & Franz König, 2023.Green, Myrah Brown; Buchhart, Dieter; Coglan, Niam; Dakouo, Armelle; Dempster, Heike; Eshun, Ekow; Felice, Claire di; Godin, Philippe; Gomado, Selasie (26 January 2023). Steininger, Florian (ed.). The New African Portraiture: The Shariat Collections (1st ed.). Köln: Walther & Franz König. ISBN 978-3-7533-0306-2.
 "The Hybrid of it all: The Making of Black British Style", in  Fashioning Masculinities: The Art of Menswear, V&A, 2022.
 A Conversation between Campbell Addy and Ekow Eshun, in Feeling Seen: The Photographs of Campbell Addy, Prestel, 2022.https://www.vam.ac.uk/shop/exhibition-ranges/fashioning-masculinities-the-art-of-menswear/fashioning-masculinities---official-exhibition-book-hardback-163185.html
 "Why do we March? Joy Gerrard’s Exhilarating Bodies in Motion", in Joy Gerrard: Precarious Freedom: Crowds, Flags, Barriers, Highlanes Gallery, 2022.Addy, Campbell (14 April 2022). Feeling Seen: The Photographs of Campbell Addy (1st ed.). Prestel. ISBN 978-3-7913-8846-5.
 "Acts of Rememory", in  Mark Bradford: Agora, Serralves, 2021"Joy Gerrard". Cristea Roberts Gallery. Retrieved 17 May 2023.
 "Portmanteau Biota", in  Hurvin Anderson: Reverb, Thomas Dane, 2021."Mark Bradford: Ágora PT". Loja de Serralves. Retrieved 17 May 2023.
 "Masterless People: The Free Republic of Raphaël Barontini", in Raphaël Barontini, Marianne Ibrahim Publications, 2021"Publications". Thomas Dane Gallery. Retrieved 17 May 2023.
 "Black is Ours", in Amoako Boafo, Marianne Ibrahim Publications, 2021."Publications". Thomas Dane Gallery. Retrieved 17 May 2023.
 "Duro Oluwo and the Becoming of Black Britain", in Duro Olowu: Seeing, Prestel, 2020.Amoako Boafo - Publications". Mariane Ibrahim Gallery. Retrieved 17 May 2023.
 *Ways of Seeing: African Portraiture Looks Back at the Imperial Eye", in Masculinities: Liberation through Photography, Prestel, 2020.Beckwith, Naomi (27 May 2020). Duro Olowu: Seeing (1st ed.). München London New York: Prestel. ISBN 978-3-7913-5948-9.
 "Every Moment Counts", in  Linda McCartney. The Polaroid Diaries, Taschen,  2019.
 "To make figures and subjects walk into a frame":Akomfrah, John; Eshun, Ekow (1 October 2017). Banning, Kass (ed.). John Akomfrah: Purple (Curve): 6. London: Barbican Art Gallery. ISBN 978-0-9957082-2-8. John Akomfrah in conversation with Ekow Eshun, in  John Akomfrah: Purple, Barbican, 2017Pardo, Alona (20 March 2020). Masculinities: Photography and Film from the 1960s to Now: Liberation through Photography (1st ed.). Munich London New York: Prestel. ISBN 978-3-7913-5951-9.
 "Like Tulips in the Sun: Colonisation and Creolisation in the World Stage":Akomfrah, John; Eshun, Ekow (1 October 2017). Banning, Kass (ed.). John Akomfrah: Purple (Curve): 6. London: Barbican Art Gallery. ISBN 978-0-9957082-2-8. Jamaica, in Kehinde Wiley: The World Stage: Jamaica, Stephen Friedman, 2013Eshun, Ekow; McCartney, Linda (9 October 2019). Golden, Reuel (ed.). Linda McCartney. The Polaroid Diaries: MCCARTNEY, LINDA, POLAROIDS (Multilingual ed.). Köln Paris: Taschen. ISBN 978-3-8365-5811-2.
 Ekow Eshun Interviews Chris Ofili, in  Chris Ofili, Tate, 2010https://shop.tate.org.uk/chris-ofili-hardback/9328.html

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