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19 Jun 2025
Where the Stitch Fails, Memory Escapes (From the series “Wounds That Breathe” by Ibrahim Mahama)

Where the Stitch Fails, Memory Escapes(From the series “Wounds That Breathe” by Ibrahim Mahama)

What we see is not just torn fabric — it is a wound.A scar not hidden, but held up to light.A failed stitch, not from negligence, but from repetition — the kind that history imposes. Ghanaian artist Ibrahim Mahama gathers these burlap sacks from across local markets and ports — surfaces once handled by countless, nameless hands moving cocoa, coal, and coffee. They carry the dust of labor, the ink of transactions, the breath of systems designed to forget those […]