{"id":1544,"date":"2022-03-15T13:11:24","date_gmt":"2022-03-15T11:11:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/metamorf.no\/2022\/?p=1544"},"modified":"2022-04-06T17:02:14","modified_gmt":"2022-04-06T15:02:14","slug":"joshua-dekia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/metamorf.no\/2022\/joshua-dekia\/","title":{"rendered":"Joshua Dekia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Meta.Morf 2022 \/ Trondheim Academy of Fine Art (KiT), NTNU \/<br \/>\nExhibition Program May 3\u2013June 19 \/ Curator: Alex Murray-Leslie<\/p>\n<h2>To End Is To Begin<\/h2>\n<h5>Joshua Dekia [GH\/NO]<\/h5>\n<p>Joshua\u00b4s work engages in the cultural lifestyle and community-based art of the communities in the Ghanan, Kassena Nankana West Districts, with a focus on the wall paintings of Sirigu, passed down through the generations. He explores the spiritual and cultural connections between animal motifs, colours, patterns and most importantly their attitudes exhibited during their production. His current works express one&#8217;s life as a collection of memories and events, mixing traditional Ghanan techniques with contemporary technological tools and craft techniques, such as image transfer, embroidery, photography, drawing, abstraction and composition among others. Dekia uses personal artistic papier-m\u00e2ch\u00e9 methods to mash up local Adresseavisen newspaper fibres, acting as embedded semantic material to transfer complex readings of contemporary mediated imagery.<\/p>\n<p><b>Program<br \/>\n<\/b><b><\/b><b>May 14 &#8211; June 6<br \/>\n<\/b>K-U-K \u2013 Kj\u00f8pmannsgata Ung Kunst<br \/>\nTrondheim Public Library (second floor viewed from the bridge)<\/p>\n<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2687 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/metamorf.no\/2022\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Joshua_dekia_artist_portrait-300x146.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"146\" \/>Joshua Dekia<br \/>\n<\/strong>Joshua Dekia, obtained his bachelor\u2019s degree in painting and sculpture in 2018 at Kwame Nkrumah University of Science And Technology, Kumasi Ghana. He is currently a collaborating artist of the art collective Chicks on Speed and MFA2 student in the International Masters Program, Trondheim Academy of Fine Art.<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">Header Graphics: &#8220;Global Angst&#8221; (2021). Material: Adressavisen newspapers, Fabric, Rivercoat Cornloure, Mollerens Semile Gryn and Vegetable oil. Size: Vest size 42. Costume made for Chicks on Speed performance, Global Angst Parade, Munich, 2021.<br \/>\nPortrait Photograph: Production still by Mohammad Bayesteh, 2021.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joshua\u00b4s work engages in the cultural lifestyle and community-based art of the communities in the Ghanan, Kassena Nankana West Districts, with a focus on the wall paintings of Sirigu, passed down through the generations.<\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/metamorf.no\/2022\/joshua-dekia\/\"> Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1545,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1544","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-kit"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/metamorf.no\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1544","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/metamorf.no\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/metamorf.no\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/metamorf.no\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/metamorf.no\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1544"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/metamorf.no\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1544\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2892,"href":"https:\/\/metamorf.no\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1544\/revisions\/2892"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/metamorf.no\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1545"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/metamorf.no\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/metamorf.no\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/metamorf.no\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}