Akosua Viktoria Adu-Sanyah’s ‘no flowers’ transforms absence into luminous matter at Centre Culturel Suisse.
2 June 2026
What does mourning look like when memory fractures, language fails, and technology begins to dream on our behalf? In ‘no flowers’, her first solo exhibition in France, Zurich-based artist Akosua Viktoria Adu-Sanyah invites audiences into a haunting visual landscape shaped by grief, remembrance, and radical acts of repair.
Drawing from her ongoing photographic research project DELIRIUM, Adu-Sanyah weaves together analogue photography, AI-generated image distortions, and darkroom experimentation to navigate the loss of her father during the pandemic. Unable to return to Ghana to say goodbye, the artist turns absence into material, creating spectral floral forms from photographs of dried bouquets processed through early generative AI systems and painstakingly redeveloped by hand.
The resulting works hover between dream and document, presence and disappearance. Across the exhibition, fragments of medical records are reworked through conversations with artificial intelligence, exposing the violence embedded within institutional language while proposing more tender vocabularies of care.
At once deeply personal and politically resonant, ‘no flowers’ is a meditation on memory’s unstable architectures and the possibility of reclaiming dignity through image making. Here, photography becomes both witness and ritual, holding space for what cannot be said, yet refuses to be forgotten.
This exhibition is on view at the Centre culturel suisse in Paris until 26 July 2026.
