Eric Gyamfi uses storytelling to position his own past into a more universal experience of belonging. His self-portraits and quasi-diaristic installations about his own nomadic existence are deeply personal, yet transcend his individual experience. The artist employs an array of visual methods to recount memories that hover somewhere between autobiography and fiction. His work consists of collages, writings, sound and prints that were developed using various processes, such as cyanotype and screen-printing.

At the invitation of Foam, Gyamfi translated his scrapbook-aesthetic onto the museum walls. The resulting installations make us reconsider the meaning of a photographic image as a record of the truth or the externalization of personal memory. Instead, the photograph is presented as a powerful but deeply ambiguous tool to recount and reinvent stories – be they true or false.

Visit and revisit the work of Foam Paul Huf Award Winner Eric Gyamfi, other exhibitions and events as a Foam Member.

Eric Gyamfi is the winner of the 13^th Foam Paul Huf Award, which is awarded annually by an international jury to talented photographers under the age of 35.

Eric Gyamfi – Fixing Shadows

13 December 2019 – 11 March 2020

Foam museum

Keizersgracht 609
1017 DS Amsterdam
The Netherlands

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