Ernestina Mansa Doku

Ernestina Mansa Doku (b. 2001, Kumasi, Ghana) lives and works between Accra and Kumasi, Ghana. She holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the department of Painting and Sculpture, KNUST, Kumasi, and is currently pursuing her Master’s in Fine Art. She is a member of the blaxTARLINES KUMASI collective. As part of the 2024–2025 winter semester exchange programme, she studied at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, as an Art School Alliance (ASA) exchange student. Her practice reflects her view on nature and how natural forms adapt to any given environment, squeezing through crevices, attaching themselves to surfaces, intertwining with other objects and adapting to any given circumstance. Through painting, sculpture, photography, animation and video, she is poised to challenge the anthropocentric notion of human experiences to embrace and open spaces for the post human experience. She describes her working process as a surgical treatment using distortion, reorganising, reshaping, multiplying or even dividing to change the appearance of form to create something new.

Portrait, photo by Ernestina Doku