Samuel Baah Kortey’s artistic practice archives and explores the physical, metaphysical and
social interactions of societies with notions that relate to civilization, immigration, religion, and the sacred. He is intrigued by religious subjectivities, the structural framework of cities & ideas concerning animal and human sacrifices. As a multi-sensorial art practitioner, his mediums vary.

He uses diverse materials such as animal & human blood, coffee, paper, resin, and sound to create provocative installations that may be perceived as sinful. Still, in actual sense, his work critically engages with cultural and religious practices within specific contexts. He critically scrutinizes conceptions around valorizing religious and cultural iconographies within the post colonial space. A recurring motif in Samuel’s approach is his use of animal blood, which he relates to the daily happenings at the abattoir, social rooms, and various churches worldwide.

His performances and installations question these notions of love, violence, sacrifice, sacred, secular, death, and life…; to subvert these blessed or religious (Christian) traditions centered on man to that which advocates compassion towards animals. By subverting and creating parodies of Christian iconographies, he probes into the lost aura of the Christ iconography, as it is met with massification by capitalist and hyper-consumerist popular culture, which turns the
sacred into something banal and memes.