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M+ 

Est: 2020

ID: artistic sydicate

Roster: Bi-annual showcases by M+/ Cult Meraki/ More...

For deeper and accountable collaborations to engage mutual progress.

The gallery-residency serves to connect Cult Meraki’s artistic outputs and potentials, linking the artists and artworks-in-progress with projects+partners+patrons:

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SHOWING NOW...

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The display converses on elements in the artists practices at Cult Meraki, outside of professional restraint.

Over the years residents have explored skills, tools, ideas, and thinking. Developing styles and methods in a space that holds for education, support and critique - grounding and uplifting artistic practices. Sampling works completed or in-progress over various periods, forms, and materials, the display is a testament to the discipline, range, and potential of M+ artists.

July - October 2024

PREVIOUS EXHIBITIONS 

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Stations of Protest presents dialogue on the fabric and yield of protest; a confluence for inspiration and otherness to survive life in spaces compromised to nurture all else but its own. 
As medium it composes the work of 16 artists to inquire into matters that edge on living, environment, economy, and society; exploring how protest is, and has been ingrained in our daily lives as 
an intrinsic aspect to forming our culture; and transforming and evolving the idea of our worlds 
and how we live through them.

Dec 2021 - Feb 2022

stations of protest

ARTISTS 

Intrigued by conditions framing perception, Latifah Iddriss seeks how consciousness impresses on space+life, translating psyches into worlds.To vent conditions evoking desire, knowledge, ideas, consumption, and policy; the artist bridges mediums, methods and materials to explore how entities synthesize and transform. Currently studio director Cult Meraki, the creative engine integrates artistic and professional practices (across art, architecture, design and construction), researching+experimenting for responsive developments through: Locale go scales the design + construction of structures for better function + aesthetics in connection to surroundings: Imbibing flexible and modular systems to improve energy + cost efficiency. WIP translates design and processes to train skills and standardize production. Concept Space is collection of buildings showcasing concepts for enhancing life, environments and economies.The prototypes offer workshops, residencies and exhibitions on art + culture. M+ is a gallery/residency to advance ideas that hone creative thinking and making, community-building and eco-systems. Since graduating architecture school at KNUST, Iddriss worked with Mobius Architecture,Ashesi Design School, and Mustard Architecture. Exhibiting under Nubuke Foundation, Arthaus, ANO, at 1-54 and featured by Christie’s Auction House.

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Latifah Iddriss

Artist | Architect | Designer | Image-maker

Yasmine Mimi Iddriss is a multidisciplinary artist working a range of mediums. Drawing inspiration from the world around her, she infuses each piece with a unique perspective and sensibility: capturing and translating ephemera in nature, emotions and space. Fascinated with design, anatomy, and behaviour, her practice blends exploring and experiments to tell stories and push limits (through design, photography, painting, architecture and graphic design). Her work reflects a deep understanding of form, colour, and composition. Beyond individual practice,Yasmine shares her passion and knowledge in the arts: teaching, mentoring, or collaborating with others to empower experiments. “I was a late bloomer in believing I could develop my own art. I love to experiment and explore, inspired by everything around me: the environment, nature, people...working to reserve their health is the goal. Maybe forging and connecting new pathways can make this sometimes ugly world more beautiful.”

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Yasmine Iddriss

Artist | Designer | Photographer

Collins Amegah is a visual artist and graphic designer whose vibrant and daring creations pulsate with inspiration from nature, human expressions, music, literature, and design. Amegah pushes for introspection and wonder, delving into new mediums, materials, means and digitization to hone an exuberant and nuanced palette articulated over wood, fabric, glass and concrete canvases. He masterfully melds disparate elements and techniques; pushing emotion and motion through intricate patterns, texture, colour and brushwork. “Amidst the current turmoil of the world, my art aims to bring warmth, thought and solace. It’s geared especially at young people seeking a genuine path to awaken the dream they carry inside.And anyone else seeking new ways to value their lives. I want to impact social change and push boundaries on acrylic and fabric painting.” Amegah’s ventures cut across graphic, product, fashion and art, showing a versatile and collaborative talent. His work has been featured by Nubuke Foundation, and Cult Meraki where he designs graphics, products, and exhibitions. Collins lives in Ghana (Accra and Tema).

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Collins Amegah

Artist | Designer

Hanardy Iddriss leverages different disciplines to innovate against convention, presenting what she imagines. Her practice in art and fashion spans physical and digital forms. Intrigued by transitory elements, diverse materials, and cultures, Hanardy aims to explore immersive experiences.Through distorted or more apparent compositions, the artist has been playing between painting and sculpture, manipulating cubes and nebulous things. “My works play with boundless forms, materials, and concepts, to present a fascination with texture, movement, pattern, sound, colour and light. Drawn to the intricate detail in some materials used in fashion and architecture, I started exploring with plaster and mesh, then incorporating other materials like beads, yarn, fabric and wire.” Besides running the design brand [see me] and styling projects, Hanardy Iddriss is an artist and designer at Cult Meraki: in residence to expand her skillset in designing objects, buildings and spaces. She lives in Accra.

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Hanardy Iddriss

Artist | Designer

CHRISTINE BOATENG is a filmmaker & film programmer based in Accra, Ghana. She believes in the power of collaboration and in the beauty of belonging in a community or spaces that can harness her craft. Her work has found a way to audiences through Nowness, Indie Memphis Film Festival,Aesthetica Short Film Festival, Nubuke Foundation and International Festival of Films on Art. Christine is a graduate of the University of Legon, and currently works with ...

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Christine Boateng

Filmaker | Photographer

Joseph Abbey Mensah hails from Ghana. I create art under the pseudonym SarfBort. Growing up in a community rich in tradition and culture, art has always been an integral part of my life. I developed a strong interest in expressing my imagination through pictures, which has become one of my primary creative outlets. I view each photograph I create as a manifestation of my thoughts, almost like watching magic happen in real time. It starts as a thought that gathers various ideas and presents itself in my mind's eye before coming to life through photography. Every image represents my way of thinking. “Being a creative fascinates me, and one unique aspect of my approach is that I view my art as an observer rather than the artist. I embrace both admiration and critique as part of the process. I am constantly flooded with ideas, and seeing them come to life is simply fascinating. It’s difficult to pin down a specific technique because the process unfolds in my mind. I enjoy styling my subjects and positioning them to perfectly replicate my ideas. I draw deep inspiration from nature and the culture that surrounds me.” Joseph has exhibited with.... with his photographs featured by ... apple, the container,...

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Joseph Abbey Mensah

Photographer | Stylist 

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