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Baff Akoto is an artist and filmmaker living in London. In 2021, Akoto presented ground-breaking augmented reality exhibition, UP:RISE, nationwide, including in Liverpool at FACT.
Baff Akoto is shortlisted for the 2022 Aesthetica Art Prize for his work LEAVE THE EDGES. He is part of the 2022 cohorts for both The London Open triennial at Whitechapel Gallery and the 13th Bamako Biennial of African Photography.
One of the featured directors is Baff Akoto. His work is generally focused on the fluidity of visual grammar and characters who grapple with notions of identity and (self) perception. Mentored by artist John Akomfrah and filmmaker Asif Kapadia, he’s been directing tv dramas, shorts and films since the early 2010s.
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Raised in London and Accra, Baff Akoto is an artist working across multiple mediums. He is currently busy with his next VR/immersive project and the following two artist film works in the Leave the Edges trilogy.
Aug 2, 2021 · A new augmented reality piece by the Ghanaian-UK artist and filmmaker Baff Akoto will revisit the England riots of 2011—one of Britain’s most unsettling and violent recent historical events—which...
Aug 2, 2021 · Baff Akoto is an artist and film-maker living in London. Akoto’s work has been exhibited at London’s Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA) and at the British Film Institute (BFI) in their Experimenta strand for ‘works by artists that revolutionise and reshape our vision of the cinematic moving image’.
