Patrick Tagoe-Turkson/Ghana
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Assorted rubber sandals collected on the beaches of the Atlantic Ocean are used here as a metaphor of the complex global crisis. Through further collaboration with refugees in Hamburg the disconnected rubber sandals are hand stitched to generate a new beautiful installation.
Untitled, 2016.
Untitled, 2016.
Untitled, 2016.
Untitled, 2016.
We put on rubber sandals but mostly we fail to observe the effect of our action at the foot. This presentation is about the used rubber sandals art project Tale within Crossing in Takoradi/Ghana with rural-urban migrants who are shoe repairers. The collaborative art project which takes a look at the hidden side of the lives of shoe repairers in Ghana will enable the migrants to share their stories, obtain psychological support, re-establish new relationships and most likely to help to realize our plan of building together a home out of used rubber sandals. The government, community, various city and social welfare departments, artists, and organizations will indirectly benefit from this artistic intervention.