Akwasi Bediako Afrane

Akwasi Bediako Afrane develops his projects from the accumulation of electronic waste generated by our contemporary societies, which he repurposes and transforms into artworks, often in participatory forms. Through processes of transformation and reassembly, they become living forms at a human scale, making visible the infrastructures and residues of digital economies. His work foregrounds the opacity surrounding our continuous consumption of these technologies — we remain largely unaware of how they function, their actual capacities, and what they can absorb from our thoughts, interests, and desires — as well as the environmental and social consequences embedded in systems of consumption and obsolescence.