FLOATING DREAMS: Listening Upstream

Host
Abraham Tettey
Location
Akwamufie
Date
08.10.2026 – 24.10.2026
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On October 8, we invite you to FLOATING DREAMS: Listening Upstream, an exhibition following the memories, stories of the Volta River Project and the many ways it transformed and continue to shape the present.

In the 1960s, the people of Akwamufie looked towards the Volta River Project with hope. At the heart of Ghana’s vision of post-independence modernisation, the Akosombo Dam promised electricity, industrial development and a new future. For communities along the Volta, however, this future came with profound sacrifice. As the waters rose to form Lake Volta, around 80,000 people were displaced, while villages, homes and ancestral landscapes disappeared beneath the water. The river’s ecology and downstream livelihoods were also profoundly altered.

Through the ancestral and material explorations of Sika Amakye @sika.amakye , archival photographs from the Willis Bell Photographic Archive @thewillisbellarchive in conversation with contemporary images by Isaac Gyamfi Assumeng @igyamfi6studio , and the film Ghana’s Electric Dreams by R. Lane Clark and Stephan F. Miescher, the exhibition opens a conversation between the dream, what was lived, what was lost and what continues to flow.

Curators: Abraham Tettey @master_ab , Ami Tamakloe @ami_tamakloe

Date: October 8, 2026
Venue: Akwamufie Community Centre

Come listen upstream.

Supported by @othernetwork.io @ifa.visualarts

Graphics: @igyamfi6studio
Voice narration: @ami_tamakloe

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