From 4 November 2023 to 15 April 2024, Nuku Studio’s Center for Photographic Research and Practice in Tamale was transformed for Routes of Rebellion, a major solo exhibition of films and audio-visual media by Jesse Weaver Shipley.
The show explores how revolutionaries transform our perception. The works draw on the aesthetics of anti-imperial cultural and political movements from the 1970s through 2000s, tracing the paths that radical artists, athletes, and thinkers travel in confronting power. Shipley’s images and sonic work challenge narrative conventions and experiment with storytelling by blending documentary, fiction, music video, and experimental techniques. The exhibition space is designed using upcycled bales of used clothing embodying how aesthetics are always both the material and the ephemeral.