To trace what passes

Ausstellung Abdul-Salam Alhassan & Li Jiacheng

In “To trace what passes”, Abdul-Salam Alhassan and Li Jiacheng engage with the visual legacies of cartography and photography to undermine their claims to authority. Both artists make room for uncertainty, opacity, and imagined lives that resist being fixed in place.The conceptual starting point of the exhibition is a gesture of invitation: in the course of his guest semester at Städelschule, Abdul-Salam Alhassan invited Li Jiacheng to join him in this presentation at fffriedrich. From this, a dialogue on artistic proximity emerges.

The exhibition is realised within the framework of the “Frankfurt Moves!” exchange programme between Städelschule and KNUST in Kumasi, Ghana, initiated by KfW Stiftung.

Curated by Alica Sänger and Radia Soukni.

Graphic design by Ella Pechechian