‘Artist-to-Artist’: Appau Jnr Boakye-Yiadom Selected by Glenn Ligon
The London artist, presented at Frieze London 2024 by Champ Lacombe, was chosen by Ligon for his ‘unfinished conversations’
The London artist, presented at Frieze London 2024 by Champ Lacombe, was chosen by Ligon for his ‘unfinished conversations’
At Frieze London 2024, Appau Jnr Boakye-Yiadom presents ‘Before, During & After: Here Now, Before, During & After: Here Soon’, an exhibition in two parts: one in which the artist is present, the other in which he is physically absent. Both aspects centre on the artist learning to play the drums, allowing his practice and process become one in a live, uncensored display of trial and error. Boakye-Yiadom approaches percussion as a universal language with a capacity for bodily connection in its mass of rhythms and beats. His absences from the space reiterate a core theme of time, its record and our experience of it.
Glenn Ligon, who selected Boakye-Yiadom for Artist-to-Artist 2024, explained his choice:
‘Appau Jnr Boakye-Yiadom is an artist for whom learning is positioned as an artistic practice: he learns as he makes and makes as he learns. The resulting artworks, which span photography, moving image, live performance, sculpture and sound, document that process while troubling the boundaries between genres of art and between artist and audience. His work is a call-and-response with the viewer and with his own practice, as a video installation, performance or set of photographic images might serve as the basis for new works. Boakye-Yiadom believes artworks are unfinished conversations: collaborations and dialogues we have with others over time through the medium of art. His multifaceted, multilayered practice is one in which gathering, listening and looking is foregrounded and celebrated.’
About Appau Jnr Boakye-Yiadom
Boakye-Yiadom (b. 1984, London, UK) lives and works in London. He received a Post Graduate Diploma from the Royal Academy Schools in 2008 and a BA (Hons) in Fine Art, Painting from Winchester School of Art in 2005. Boakye-Yiadom works predominantly in sound, photography, installation and video.
Appau Jnr Boakye-Yiadom is showing with Champ Lacombe at Frieze London 2024.
Further Information
Frieze London and Frieze Masters 2024, The Regent’s Park, 9 – 13 October 2024.
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Main Image: Appau Jnr Boakye-Yiadom, Before, During & After: Here Now, Before, During & After: Here Soon, 2024. Courtesy the artist and Champ Lacombe
