Developement of the brand identity for Saman Archives, as well as a brand guideline document.
Handwriting by Adjoa Armah

‘Saman archive is a gathering of photographic negatives encountered across Ghana, through which Adjoa Armah explores models of institution building grounded in Akan temporalities and West African technologies of social and historical mediation. Armah has shown internationally, including at Auto Italia, London, fluent, Santander, Hauser & Wirth, Menorca, Delfina Foundation, London, Espace Niemeyer, Paris, and Salone De Mobile, Milan. Armah is also currently a practice-led DPhil researcher in Fine Art at Ruskin School of Art at the University of Oxford, cross-supervised with Pitt Rivers Museum, with a project provisionally titled; ‘Atlantic Marginalia: Towards Black Historiography with the Temporal Consciousness of Sand'. Through her doctoral research, she engages with concepts of unstable ground, considering sand, soil, sea, and various mutable landscapes as metaphors for identity: shifting, porous and constantly reshaped by external factors.’ 

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