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Why has a crumbling bottle plant been rebuilt in Paris? The stunning show suggesting the future is Ghana-shaped

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Why has a crumbling bottle plant been rebuilt in Paris? The stunning show suggesting the future is Ghana-shaped

Fondation Cartier, ParisIbrahim Mahama put an entire factory in this exhibition exploring Ghana before and after it was ripped to shreds by colonialism. And it’s just one dazzling installation in a show full of hopeIbrahim Mahama has dug through the ruins of post-colonial Ghana, sorted through the ashes of its ancient history, picked through the industrial detritus, the corporate waste, the piles of rubbish, and found something pretty unique: hope.Sit on one of the Asante stools in his circular Parliament of Ghosts and you can almost feel a new future being worked out right in front of you. It

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