Adokwei Boye Ghanaian, b. 1997

Edwin Adokwei Boye is a Ghanaian Photographer and Visual Artist specializing in Afro-Surrealist Collages and sustainable practices using textile waste. As a self-taught artist, Boye cultivated his passion for art through empirical exploration and on-site research. His work process includes surrealistic experimentation to transform real-life photography into digital artworks, telling fabulated fantasies, and advocating for improved conditions for affected communities. Adokwei Boye works with textile waste gathered from the beaches of Accra, Kantamanto Market, and the Agbogbloshie landfill, turning what has been cast off into vessels of memory and renewal. Each piece of cloth, once worn by someone unknown, holds the quiet weight of a life lived, carrying traces of personal history that may never be uncovered. To Boye, these fabrics are far more than waste; they are silent witnesses of human journeys, loss, and displacement. Through careful fabric manipulation, he gives these materials a second life. The worn textures, frayed edges, and stains are not erased but embraced, becoming part of the work’s story. Layers of paint seep into the weave of the fabric, binding pigment with fiber in a way that echoes both the endurance and the fragility of memory itself