Artists of African descent have recently been on the rise around the world. African-American artists such as Kehinde Wiley and Titus Kaphar, who value their roots, open artist residencies in the countries of their ancestral origins in Africa and in the USA to support artists of African descent. Sevil Dolmacı Art Gallery, whose mission is to capture trends and ensure their adoption in Turkey, is exhibiting the works of Felix Kwesi Awotwi, a young Ghanaian artist born in 1996. 

Awotwi, who reflects the visual traditions of his country on his canvases, complements his unique style, which he captures with strikingly expressive black figures placed in front of vividly colored backgrounds, with references from his own past. Kwesi, who remembers that in his childhood they could not even find a clothesline to hang laundry due to the financial difficulties in his country, challenges his past by decorating the clothes of the figures he depicts on his canvases with various colored ropes. In this way, he also references the colorful traditional clothing of Ghanaians. 

In the coming months, the artist will come to Istanbul as part of the Sevil Dolmacı Art Residency program and will meet Turkish art lovers.