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Ibrahim Mahama
No. 202014

Not on view
Textile artwork made from four panels of worn burlap sacking stamped with block lettering, centered with a green polka-dot fabric and a sculpted or painted swaddled infant figure
Textile assemblage of stitched burlap sacking panels stamped with "BEE-EI" and "Shaka Cocoa Board, Produce of Ghana," with a torn green fabric printed with pink circles layered diagonally at center, frayed edges throughout.
Textile work combining a coarse burlap sack printed with reversed block text reading "Ghana Cocoa Board" and "Produce of Ghan..." with a green patterned fabric featuring pink circular motifs, stitched together at the upper left with visible frayed edges and orange thread.
Fragment of coarse burlap sacking with frayed edges, stenciled with the word "BEEF" in large black block letters, with scattered blue paint spots and a faint vertical purple line running through the center.
Fragment of coarse woven textile in olive green, with frayed edges and the letters "KK" stenciled in dark ink near the lower left corner; visible seam along the right edge.
Artist or Maker
Ibrahim Mahama
Ghana, Tamale, born 1987, active Tamale, Accra, and Kumasi
Title
No. 20
Date Made
2014
Medium
Coal sacks with cloth
Dimensions
Overall: 83 × 80 in. (210.82 × 203.2 cm) Height (Including dangling pieces): 107 1/2 in. (273.05 cm) Length (Top Edge): 79 in. (200.66 cm) Height (Top center to bottom center): 82 1/2 in. (209.55 cm) Height (Includes branch piece at bottom edge): 88 1/2 in. (224.79 cm)
Credit Line
Gift of Steve and Lizzie Blatt
Accession Number
M.2018.221.2
Classification
Textiles
Collecting Area
Contemporary Art
Selected Bibliography
  • Lawson, Dhyandra. Imagining Black Diasporas: 21st Century Art & Poetics. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 2024.