LOST SISTER by Akosua Viktoria Adu-Sanyah

Akosua Viktoria Adu-Sanyah is a German-Ghanaian artist living in Zurich. In her photographic practice, she is interested in the moments when unexpected qualities of the medium unfold. Her work is grounded in an intense relationship with material and process, within a field of tension between devotion, control, and letting go. For Akosua Viktoria Adu-Sanyah, the darkroom is a source of irretrievable narratives composed of colour, form, and meaning.

LOST SISTER brings together new large-scale paintings in which figure and space exist in unstable relationships to one another. The works forgo narrative clarity and instead focus on states of proximity, displacement, and density.

Painting appears here as a structural procedure. It overlays, corrects, reveals, and renders traces visible. Each canvas emerges through a process of repeated assertions and revisions. Figures take shape while simultaneously resisting fixed legibility.

Saarbrücken provides the frame for this body of work. The place marks a biographical rupture where painting was once suspended. With LOST SISTER, it reappears—as a current practice.