KWAME AKOTO “ALMIGHTY GOD ART WORKS”, born in 1950
Kumasi, Ghana

Everything seems to be capsized in my life, oh! God lower your eyes on me. Hmm …
Everything seems to have collapsed in my life, oh! God lower your eyes on me. Hmm…
1990s.
Alkyd paint on plywood panel with wooden framing strips, 116 x 78.5 cm.
Bibliography: Kwame Akoto, Almighty God Art Works. Exhibition catalogue Musée du quai Branly – Jacques Chirac. Fondation Antoine de Galbert. Empire books, 2026. Compare with the works reproduced, page 7 “The eyes of the Lord…”; page 32 “Les yeux d’un homme sage…”; page 92 “The eyes of the Lord moves round…”

The single eye or eyes in accumulation are frequent in Kwame Akoto’s work and carry multiple meanings. In this work, it symbolizes the gaze of God that the faithful implores; sometimes it signifies the omnipresent eye of God from whom nothing escapes; or alternatively the gaze of each person who must remain vigilant and “keep their eye open” before the temptations of evil.

This eminently poetic work is a fine example of his naïve period, created in the 1990s.