I have become very critical of food | Tracy Naa Koshie Thompson

Story: Rahamatu-Lahi Zakaria | Producer, Breakfast Live Show

All over the world, artists are inspired by different happenings and elements in their environment and how these elements come together to form new elements either in the conventional or unconventional way and Tracy Naa Koshie Thompson is no different. The artist chooses to experiment with foods and plastic and look beyond just human consumption but what it could be.  

With her earlier works, Tracy has experimented with foods like fufu, indomie, cream cracker, etc and employs bioplastic technology in transforming ultra-processed food with the use of Styrofoam, petrol, oil paint, poromeric leathers, polyester mesh fabrics, polyethene and polypropylene plastic. These ultra-processed foods are reprocessed by cooking with fermented lemon, glycerine, wine vinegar, probiotic etc. processed and altered by the contingencies of time, climate change and space.

Tracy in an interview with Sanatu Zambang narrates her journey into the form of art that she is currently interested in. According to her, this was birth through a series of experiments and soul searching while she was in school. Interactions with friends also helped her to understand and build upon her work.

This is what she had to say when asked where her form of art will lead to ‘’When you talk of unconventional it must not lead to something because if it does, then it is conventional. We still do not know where it leads to so we keep going, we keep asking you the questions and expanding that art form’’.

Tracy Naa Koshie Thompson was also part of the Existing Otherwise, the future of coexisting exhibition in Tamale happening in three spaces across the city. But Tracy works can be seen at Redclay Studio. Existing Otherwise, the future of coexisting is open to the public from the 14th of January and will end on the 20th of April, 2022 in all three spaces, Nkrumah Volni, Redclay Studio and Savannah Centre for Contemporary.

Other artists are Ana Alenso (VZ), Ato Jackson, (GH), Bernard Akoi-Jackson (GH), Cecilia Vicuna (CL), Eli Cortinas (ES), Emily Hunt, (AU), Ernest Sackitey (GH), Hannah Torticki (DK), Jem Bendeli (GB), Rosemary Esinam Damalie (GH), Ruzgar Buski (TR), Sarah Ama Duah (GH), Sandra Kyere (GH), Selom Kudjie (GH), Sikarnt Skoolisariyaporn (TH) and Tracy Naa Koshie Thompson (GH) works are part of the exhibition, Existing otherwise, the future of coexisting.

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