The internationally renowned Ghanaian artist, Ibrahim Mahama (Tamale, Ghana, 1987), returns to Italy with "Voli-ni", an unprecedented exhibition project designed specifically for the spaces of E.ART.H., open from 5 October 2022 as of April 10, 2023.

Curated by Eva Brioschi, member of the Curatorial Committee of E.ART.H., the exhibition presents a new series of works and includes a large installation that entirely occupies the long corridor on the first floor, in which the themes underlying the artistic research echo by Ibrahim Mahama. The title chosen for this Italian solo exhibition, which follows the large public intervention at the Porta Venezia toll booths in Milan in 2019 and the participation in the Venice Biennale of the same year, borrows a term from the Ghanaian dialect: Flights -ni, which literally means "into the hole".

In 2021, Mahama purchased old silos built by President Kwame Nkrumah (legendary leader who led Ghana to independence in 1957) in the early 1960s for the storage of cocoa and other seeds, which remained unused after his deposition. The locals have begun to call these buildings "Nkrumah Voli-ni", associating them precisely with the figure of the enlightened president. Born with the intention of making the country autonomous and independent in the management and marketing of its agricultural resources, they were abandoned after Nkrumah's dismissal and then filled with sand, to make them unusable and inaccessible. These examples of brutalist architecture, present in both the Accra and Tamale areas, were recovered by the artist to be saved from oblivion and returned to the community, with the intention of reconverting them into cultural centres.