Afrane Akwasi Bediako (b. 1990, Kumasi, Ghana) lives and works in Kumasi, Ghana. He is an artist and a PhD student at the department of Painting and Sculpture of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST). Akwasi Bediako’s work explores the idea of augmentation and extensions between technological gadgets, humans, and the environment. He works with electronic gadgets which he refers to as ‘amputees’. The artist refashions and repurposes these amputees into machines and micro-organisms he describes as TRONS. These TRONS become potential platforms and media for reflection, engagement and interaction. Stripped bare of their familiar housing, they become mechanical gizmos subsumed with the consciousness of previous owners of these gadgets and himself.
His work has been recently included in several exhibitions, such as: Fragments of a World After Its Own Image, curated by Kwasi Ohene-Ayeh, APALAZZOGALLERY, Brescia, Italy (2025); D²NA – TC24: Visions of the Past, Mattress Factory, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, US (2024-2025) and TRONS ‘R’US, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen, Dresden, Germany (2024).
