BIO
Raphael "Afutumix" Adjetey Adjei Mayne (born 1983, Accra-Ghana), studied at Ghanatta College of Art and Design. His work is a visceral assemblage of diverse facets of Ghanaian and African sociocultural experiences evoking political, emotional and practically psychoanalytical connections and cut-aways weaving private and public space realities unbound by time. The intricately woven youthful patterns from unique fabrics collected from localities on the coast of Ghana, fixated into an atmosphere of mediums from chalk, acrylic to charcoal, reflect dynamic portraiture invested in an artistic language integrating the philosophical concepts of Adinkra and the artist's childhood memories. An active compositional storytelling technique where historical contexts make tangents with the present, and traditional influences fuse modern aesthetics to explore gender politics, social
marginalization and African rural/urban distinctions. Raphael "Afutumix" Mayne's work has been shown at international art fairs including AKAA Paris, Investec Cape Town Art Fair, 1-54 New York, Art Market San Francisco, Art On Paper New York and Sydney Contemporary. The artist's works can be found in the MuCEM Collections, Marseille. Raphael currently lives and works in Cologne, Germany.
RESIDENCY
2022: THIS IS ME, La Brea Studio Artists Residency in Los Angeles, USA
MUSEUM
2022: WHEN WE SEE US, A group exhibition: A century of Black figuration in painting, Zeitz MOCAA, Cape Town, South Africa
SOLO
2023: WE US I, MAKASIINI Contemporary, Turku, Finland
2022: I WANT TO BE LIKE YOU WHEN I GROW UP, HELDENREIZER Contemporary, München, Germany
2022: STARGATE TO AFRICA, Chale Wote Street Art Festival, Accra-Ghana
2021: ASSUMING YOU LOOK LIKE ME, GNYP Gallery, Berlin, Germany
2021: LET ME TELL YOU ABOUT MY FRIEND, ROSS-SUTTON GALLERY, New York, USA
2021: THE JOY OF MY SKIN, Geukens & De Vil, Antwerp, Belgium
GROUP
2023: ROOTS AND ROUTES: FROM GHANA TO DUBAI, OPERA Gallery, Dubai, UAE
2020-2021: BLACK VOICE: Friend of My Mind, ROSS-SUTTON GALLERY, New York, USA
2020: YOUR SHADOWS, AFIKARIS, Paris, France
2019: THE COLLECTION, GALLERY 1957, Accra, Ghana