Alix Konadu in residency at Espaço Alkantara
Broken Home, My Shrine
![ALKANARA - In the centre of the photograph, surrounded by green trees and bushes, is Alix Konadu, standing facing a large tree trunk. Her left hand is resting on the tree, while her right hand holds a sound recorder connected to large black headphones that cover her ears. She's wearing a large colourful tunic and jeans. Under her feet and on the ground, dry tree leaves. - ©Wonder Fiatsi](/site/assets/files/10891/img_3316_credit_wonder_fiatsi.1290x0.jpeg)
- 03.07 — 14.07 2024
- Espaço Alkantara
The spark for investigating borders comes from a need to discuss the struggles and triumphs of people with a migration background, often addressing issues of identity, displacement, and the search for belonging.
Borders - How do we create them, shift them, break them, redefine them?
During her residency at pIAR in Kumasi (Ghana), Alix documented objects and people within specific boundaries. The next step was a residency at Moussem Nomadic Arts Centre, where she focused on borders as a perception of safety. A prison. A home. A belief.
At Alkantara, Alix will continue to work on the material and will organize an exchange of snippets and thoughts with an audience for the first time.
The boundaries of where I belong. The boundaries of my home.
Home as a shrine.
Home in a traveling object.
Home as a mood.
Home as a feeling.
— Alix Konadu
After Diego Bragà's residency at Moussem Nomadic Arts Centre in Brussels, as part of our annual exchange programme, it's time to receive Alix Konadu in Lisbon. Both Moussem and Alkantara operate from diverse cities with strong diasporic communities and have a keen eye for the relationship between art and society. Through this exchange, we hope to support the development of new narratives by artists who reflect these dynamics in our cities. Past residents include Youness Khoukhou (2023) and Marco Mendonça (2023).
On 8 July, at 7:00 PM, the doors of Espaço Alkantara's studio will be open to anyone who wants to talk to Alix Konadu about the work developed during the residency, identity, displacement and belonging. The entry is free.
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Alix Konadu (1992) is a performance artist. She was born and raised in Brussels with a mixed heritage of Ghanaian and Belgian descent. She studied at l'Académie Royal des Beaux-Arts de Bruxelles. Her artistic journey encompasses performance, writing and story-telling, with a focus on themes of borders and migration. Through her work, she hopes to dismantle barriers and create space for people to engage in meaningful conversations about migration, empathy, and human connection.
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![ALKANARA - Diego Bragà is in the center of the photograph, looking directly into the lens, with arms hanging by their side. They are dressed in a long, shiny black coat, reaching down to their bare feet buried in the sand. In the background, the horizon line and the evening sky, fading from orange to purple. - ©Rui Palma](/site/assets/files/10667/diego-braga.1290x0.jpg)
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