Performances

Since 2019 Martin Toloku has been exploring performance as means of researching, expanding, and understanding the subject of death, decay, fear, rituals and mortals.

About Me

Martin Toloku is Ghanaian multidisciplinary artist born 1992 in Adidome the Volta region of Ghana.

He graduated in 2013 from Sogakofe Senior High School, ( SOGASCO ), where he studied visual art majoring in ceramics and later took an apprenticeship in sculpture with a traditional carver.

Martin Toloku’s practice evolved over the years from carving to installation, video work, studio practice, live performances and collaboration with both humans and animals (usually termites). He is fascinated about the materiality of 'process of decay', death, life, time, space and nature with its inhabitants. Collecting dead and rotten wood from rivers, streams, sea, lakes, forests and his environment Toloku attempts to recreate conceptual and performative compositions of both life and death into daily experiences. However, he seeks to experiment and inquire into decay as metaphor while in his performances emotionally and spiritually challenging the audience in facing their own sense of mortality.

Toloku has featured in several exhibitions and have participated in international artists residencies such as TERRITOIRE DE CRÉATION 5ieme édition (2015 Lome Togo), perfocraZe International Artist residency (2019 Kumasi, Ghana), Ghana Must Go Forward (2018 art workshop supported by Nubuke Foundation, Basecamp Initiative and British council). He also participated in Chale wote street art festival Jamestown Accra, 2017 to 2019 and several group exhibitions including, "tomorrow" in Alliance Française Accra, "ADeakyeabia - Enubueke", the Alliance Française Kumasi organised by pIAR and "CONSTERNATION" at Nkabom literary art festival 2019.

Toloku is currently working on a new project titled DECAY.