Ferguson Amo

Black on Black

In his work, Ferguson Amo engages with Blackness as a concept of tonality. He depicts multi-faceted contemporary African identities and those of the diaspora that are marked by history, cultural diffusion, and assimilation. Black on Black presents a group of Akan people and a group of Americans. The Akan are from Southern Ghana and the Ivory Coast, they are mentioned in the first testament and hail from the Ancient Ghanaian Empire. In the monumentally sized work, two worlds collide-west and east. One can make out that the clothing on the figures billows slightly and that the wind blows in opposite directions. Through the work Amo conceptualizes the non-existence of one “black” identity, instead, “blackness” is comprised of multiple identities that are guided by time and place.

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