Dazed and Confused Magazine

CONCRETE FUTURES

Across west Africa, unfinished buildings and undeveloped housing projects litter the landscape – skeletons both ready for life, and left for dead.

In Ghana, Limbo Accra are the breaking art collective turning Accra’s concrete phantoms into living, breathing multimedia art projects, and striking up wider conversations around space in cities of the future

“To me, limbo is a powerful term. I always felt this in-between state housed a great sense of power. When something is not clearly defined, you have the ability to define it yourself”
– Dominique Petit-Frère

“I was always curious about cities – how they come to be, how we, as individuals and creatives, have this privilege of inheriting them,” muses Dominique Petit-Frère, founder of Accra-based spatial design and cross-disciplinary art collective Limbo Accra, on the ever-shifting and inspiring energies of cityscapes. Throughout human history, we have always strived to make sense of the unknown, the unseen and the unfinished, seeking to format and label as much as possible in

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