In 2016, with the architect DK Osseo-Asare, she created a small, kiosk-like Mobile Museum to travel around Ghana while adapting with each new locale-not only exhibiting its collections, but also inviting local communities to contribute to them along the way. Oforiatta Ayim is behind Accra’s nonprofit Ano Institute of Arts and Knowledge and its Pan-African C ultural Encyclopedia, a digital archive-in-progress of all things culture-related across the continent’s 54 countries. Since then, the Ghanaian art historian, filmmaker, and writer has been deconstructing the very idea of it-or rather, the very colonial idea of a museum as a “universal,” monolithic institution that at once “elevates the art object and distances you from it,” she said. A dozen years ago, Nana Oforiatta Ayim worked in the Africa department at the British Museum.
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