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An Afterimage is an optical illusion that occurs when a visual stimulus leaves an imprint on the retina that persists even after the stimulus itself has disappeared. Often appearing as flashes of colour, it marks a moment of superimposition between past and present, between what still exists and what is disappearing. In Jojo Gronostay’s practice, this “in-betweenness” and layering are reflected in the materials and images bearing traces of political and economic structures, which shape relationships between formerly colonised African countries and the so-called West.
The new series Untitled (Afterimage) (2026) brings together two-colour fields – a tactile, fabric-like brown and an acidic yellow a.o. – joined by a strip of logo-printed adhesive tape that binds them under Gronostay’s label, Dead White Men’s Clothes (DWMC). The name draws on the Ghanaian term “Obroni Wawu,” an expression that emerged during the first wave of second-hand cloth…
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An Afterimage is an optical illusion that occurs when a visual stimulus leaves an imprint on the retina that persists even after the stimulus itself has disappeared. Often appearing as flashes of colour, it marks a moment of superimposition between past and present, between what still exists and what is disappearing. In Jojo Gronostay’s practice, this “in-betweenness” and layering are reflected in the materials and images bearing traces of political and economic structures, which shape relationships between formerly colonised African countries and the so-called West.
The new series Untitled (Afterimage) (2026) brings together two-colour fields – a tactile, fabric-like brown and an acidic yellow a.o. – joined by a strip of logo-printed adhesive tape that binds them under Gronostay’s label, Dead White Men’s Clothes (DWMC). The name draws on the Ghanaian term “Obroni Wawu,” an expression that emerged during the first wave of second-hand cloth…
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