flat 70 is a community arts project in SE17.
We exist to support artistic, therapeutic & redistributive exchange between our existing and emerging community.
somnambular ghana
This limited-edition print series is the result of British-Ghanaian photographer AZCB’s (b. 1991) residence in his native Ghana from 2018-2019. Somnambular derives from the Latin for sleepwalking and is used here to evoke the surrealism of lucid dreaming in west African humidity.
The series is characterised by the poetry of DIY culture. AZCB documents a variety of impermanent spaces woven together through brief artistic, charitable and political collaborations. Pop up art-squats encounter the Volta region’s annual carnival Hogbetsoso. Crowds of dancehall fans lob missiles unbeknownst to gossiping schoolgirls under the shade of a tamarind tree.
Sleepwalking through equatorial Africa, the idle observer might overlook the sites of urban and rural acupuncture carving temporary sites of easeful freedom for young Ghanaians.
