"[sHe/it...]" is my bio-political pronoun but simply call me "[sHit]" if you can not deal with your own confusions.
Va-Bene Elikem Fiatsi also known as crazinisT artisT is a multidisciplinary artist living and practicing in Ghana. [sHe/it...] was born in Ho, Volta Region of Ghana in September 1981.
crazinisT artisT got [sHe/it...]’s Bachelor Degree in Fine Arts - BFA (Painting) in 2014 from the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), Kumasi, Ghana where [sHe/it...] is currently completing [sHe/it...]'s MFA.
Since 2012, [sHe/it...] began an endless journey of investigating and questioning social constructivism of human existence and its relationship with the "culturality" of gender stereotypes and sexual misrepresentation.
[sHe/it...]'s belief in unconditional love for humanity, regardless of one’s sense of belonging or identity, pushes [sHe/it...]'s works to investigate and question our quest for socio-cultural supremacy over marginalised people, political injustice, violence, vulnerabilities, human sense of mortality and objectification.
Va-Bene Elikem Fiatsi is one of the three performance artists appearing in the VR exhibition WHITE OUT curated by Paul Barsch & Tilman Hornig and produced by MARTA project.