December 2nd-December 16th
Rare View Mirror is a series of photographs by Samuel Aye-Gboyin that investigates individuals who exist in the margins of society, the real heroes in Ghana’s small-scale industry. These images question how we think about power, commerce, and privilege. These photographs are used as vehicles of expression to create new possibilities by placing ordinary and marginalized people within contexts of affluence, beauty, power, and authority. These pieces are inspired by the works of Diane Arbus and elicit the feeling of the othering. The series are inkjet prints on matte paper.
Samuel Aye-Gboyin is an artist who works in a variety of mediums such as design, photography, video, and animation and is currently an MFA candidate in Art and Technology at the School of Art and Art History, University of Florida. Samuel received his master’s degree with an emphasis in Graphic Design from Eastern Illinois University in 2021, in addition to his bachelor’s degree in Communication Design with a concentration in animation and motion graphics from the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science & Technology in 2018. Samuel utilizes an interdisciplinary approach to his work using these mediums to keep track of what is happening in the world today. Be it his frame-to-frame animation technique or compelling monochrome images, he investigates the topics of commerce, migration, globalization, and hybridity. His work has been exhibited nationally and internationally and he has participated in numerous group exhibitions
