Larry Achiampong’s recent feature-length film, Wayfinder (2022), follows a young girl known as the Wanderer as she travels England from Hadrian’s Wall to Margate. The history of travel – and through it, themes of displacement and identity – have long been central to the preoccupations of the British-Ghanaian artist, as this show at the Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art in Gateshead makes clear (20 May–29 October). Alongside Wayfinder, the exhibition includes works from his long-running Relic Traveller project (2017–ongoing), which combines performance, film, sound and prose to present an imagined future in which the prosperous Pan African Union sends ‘relic travellers’ around the world to recover testimonies from the past. Find out more on the Baltic’s website.
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Still from Wayfinder (2022), Larry Achiampong. Courtesy the artist and Copperfield, London; © Larry Achiampong. All rights reserved, DACS/Artimage 2022
Still from Wayfinder (2022), Larry Achiampong. Courtesy the artist and Copperfield, London; © Larry Achiampong. All rights reserved, DACS/Artimage 2022