For the past few months, I’ve been participating in a kind of art experiment: a book club in which artists of all different genres first discuss, and then respond to the book by creating a project. The book, ‘An African in Greenland,’ is about a man who travels from Togo to Greenland– and the adventures he encounters along this unique journey.

Our gallery exhibit opens next Thursday, September 17th, from 6-8pm at the EFA Project Space in Manhattan, featuring all kinds of art: sculptures, paintings, installations, photographs and videos- each piece inspired by the book. My installation, ‘Retold Journeys,’ is a video and sound installation that mixes text from ‘An African in Greenland‘ with footage from one of the earliest documentary films ever made, Nanook of the North by Robert Flaherty, set to a strange arctic soundscape of isolation.

This my first ever installation featured in an actual gallery! I’m so excited.

Arctic Book Club Presents: An African in Greenland