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Abstract
In the 2012 film The Currency of Ntoma Godfried Donkor relates the personal story of his Ghanaian mother’s collection of Dutch Wax prints (a fabric with its own complex history of migration and appropriation) and the individual significance each design holds. The title of the work alludes to the circulation of textiles as a commodity and how by forming these collections West African women assert degrees of financial and cultural independence. For the article published here the artist reflects on this work and translates his mother’s words as she shares her collection with the viewer. The article is illustrated by stills from the film.
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Godfried Donkor
Godfried Donkor is an internationally renowned artist who has exhibited at the Venice Biennale, The Institute of Contemporary Art, London, the National Museum in Ghana, Tate Modern and at the Dakar Biennale in Senegal where he won the “Prix de la Revelation.” He was born in 1964 in Kumasi Ghana, the son of a dressmaker and moved to the UK as a child. His studies have included an MA in African Art History at the School of Oriental and African Studies and a BA in fine art practice at Central Saint Martins and postgraduate studies at Escolla Massana in Barcelona.