Serge Attukwei Clottey : The Artist Urging African Men To Dress As Women
by The Daily Eye Team October 10 2016, 11:47 am Estimated Reading Time: 0 mins, 32 secsSerge Attukwei Clottey walked through Ghana’s capital city in his dead mother’s clothes to honour her memory – and to highlight injustice against women. It is the latest step in his art collective’s mission to create social change A muscle-heavy man sits, staring unsmiling at the camera, on a throne of yellow plastic water cans. His biceps push out from under the puffed shoulders of a wax-print blouse; two hairy ankles emerge from below a blue patterned skirt; his head is wrapped in a large piece of fabric, a huge bow hanging over his left ear.