In our profile series with Ghanaian spatial design studio Limbo Accra, we meet its rich network of collaborators. Here, spatial artist Ibiye Camp completes our journey with a discussion on the urba...
of nm bello Studio, we round off this series by exploring Limbo Accra’s nascent collaboration with artist Ibiye Camp.Ibiye Camp is a multidisciplinary artist and lecturer at the Royal College of Arts in London. With a Nigerian mother and English father, Camp’s work reflects her upbringing, straddling the binaries of her identity.
These limbo structures are a recognisable aesthetic across West Africa, with deep cultural significance. Petit-Frère explains that ‘they reflect the different levels of exploitation within the construction industry and its disabling effect on the urban landscape.’ Petit-Frère guided Camp to Labadi Beach Tower in Accra, a 17-storey building, one of two of its kind planned to be built, to take scans.
The pair’s digital archive questions the future of the urban landscape in Africa, while keeping pace with the world’s reconfiguration into digital spaces. It will explore how urbanists, designers, and artists alike, can create new spatial artefacts that, for Petit-Frère, ‘simultaneously honour their visions while orienting them towards the future’.
Petit-Frère was particularly empowered by the organic process of information exchange with another female architect and designer in Accra, and ‘finding new ways to use architecture to experiment, experience and see the city as a playground’.
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