Editorial Archive
Curatorial writing, artist statements, and selected press framing Benjamin Asante's practice from Women in Triumph through This Is Us and the materially refined stillness of the present work.
Selected press
Suboart Magazine
23 September 2021
Out of Africa Art
16 August 2023
Crowned by Care
2019 · Acrylic on canvas
Featured statement
2019
A personal early series honouring women as nurturers, mourners, protectors, survivors, and sources of renewal.
Women in Triumph is rooted in Benjamin Asante's experience of being shaped, protected, and sustained by women through loss and instability. Growing up without a father, later losing his mother, and then being raised by his aunt, he came to understand womanhood not as an abstract ideal, but as a living force of endurance, sacrifice, and emotional strength.
After the death of his aunt's husband, that understanding deepened. These paintings are not simply portraits of women. They are meditations on care, grief, beauty, resilience, and the unseen emotional weight women bear across time while continuing to hold life together.
Curatorial frame
Benjamin Asante's practice is anchored in restraint. His figures do not perform emotion for the viewer; instead, they hold themselves with a measured interiority that asks for slower looking.
Practice arc
Read together, Women in Triumph, This Is Us, and Woven Sanctuaries position the studio as a sustained figurative practice moving from family memory and embodied resilience toward social observation, stillness, and refuge.
Across painting and yarn-based collage, his work considers how peace is pursued rather than assumed. The tactile presence of thread brings care, patience, and continuity into the picture plane, making material choice inseparable from the emotional life of the image.
Selected features
Featured Interview
23 September 2021
A Suboart Magazine interview that centres This Is Us, Benjamin Asante's defence of self-expression, and the fashion-led references behind the paintings.
Suboart Magazine introduces Benjamin Asante through the socially observant force of This Is Us, positioning the series as a response to the way self-styling and public appearance are too easily treated as moral evidence.
Press Feature
16 August 2023
A profile feature describing Benjamin Asante as an Accra-based mixed-media artist whose work examines the social habit of reading appearance as character.
Presented here as a profile feature on the practice. The original post sits within an earlier social-media context; this page instead keeps the artist and studio presentation clear, with the current studio account listed as benjamin_asante95.
Archive texts
The archive gathers Benjamin Asante's artist statement, series texts, and curatorial framing as a readable editorial layer around the paintings.
Curatorial Text
Curatorial note
Studio curatorial text
A curatorial framing of Benjamin Asante's paintings and yarn-based collages as sites of restraint, dignity, and emotional refuge.
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Statement
Studio statement
Benjamin Asante
Benjamin Asante reflects on figurative painting, yarn as symbolic structure, and the deliberate construction of stillness inside the work.
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Series Statement
Series statement
Studio text
A statement on social perception, self-fashioning, and the dignity of being seen beyond surface judgement.
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Series Statement
Series statement
Studio text
A current body of work considering refuge as something emotionally made rather than physically found.
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