HARRIS ELLIOTT PRESENTS: KUBOLOR'S DREAM BY OFE AMPONSAH

HARRIS ELLIOTT PRESENTS: KUBOLOR'S DREAM BY OFE AMPONSAH

14th October - 5th November 2026
at The Casbah, 20 Little Portland St, London WIW 8BS

Harris Elliott presents Kubolor's Dream, a selling exhibition of works by Ghana-based mixed-media artist Ofe Amponsah, presented within Elliott's immersive installation at Le Parlour. The third in a series of presentations at Le Parlour, Kubolor's Dream continues Elliott's engagement with artists working across disciplines whose practices resonate with the Le Tings philosophy of material consciousness, cultural storytelling, artistic rigour and design. Bringing Amponsah's work into dialogue with Elliott's own practice, the exhibition explores shared territory between art, clothing, memory and material reinvention.

Opening Times
Tuesday to Friday 11-6pm, Thursdays 11-8pm,
Saturday 17th 11-6pm, Sunday 18th 11-6pm

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Harris Elliott first encountered Ofe Amponsah's work in Accra, where their shared relationship to Kantamanto Market and the circulation of discarded textiles created an immediate point of connection.

Drawn to the honesty of Amponsah's portraiture, the cultural history embedded within Kubolor and the meticulous vibrancy of his hand woven processes, Elliott began supporting the practice after acquiring a work from that first encounter.

Kubolor’s Dream presented in Le Parlour is an extension of that ongoing dialogue around material, place and narrative.

Ofe Amponsah Kwabena Gideon is a Ghana-based mixed-media artist working across textile, image and installation. His practice considers the pressures placed upon identity, from society, family and expectations of respectability to the quieter struggle to define oneself beyond them. Central to his practice is the figure of the kubolor. Within Ghanaian parlance, the term describes a truant, wanderer or vagabond, but can also embody improvisation, curiosity, adaptability and resourcefulness. Amponsah adopts Kubolor as both a moniker and a way of working, its spirit informing Kubolor's Dream and his exploration of movement, self-determination and life beyond fixed social structures.

These ideas extend into Amponsah's use of material. Through tufting, assemblage and wearable form, he works with second-hand textiles sourced from marketplaces, giving new life to materials that might otherwise have reached the end of their use. Fabric moves freely between functions; garment, curtain, bag, tablecloth, costume and artwork, collapsing distinctions between image and object while raising questions of reuse, value and sustainability.

Installed alongside Harris Elliott's The Collection, this process of material reinvention finds an echo in the surrounding architecture. Elliott's installation is formed from over 400 vintage white shirts originally destined for second-hand markets in the Global South, cut apart and reassembled into expansive sheets of cloth across the provisional architecture of a house. Something once worn becomes something inhabited, carrying associations of labour, ceremony, uniformity, respectability and memory.

Across both practices, materials are released from their assigned functions. What has been worn, handled, exchanged or discarded becomes the foundation for new images, objects and structures. Kubolor's Dream considers how material can carry memory while continually acquiring new meanings. uses and lives. The presentation also reflects Le Parlour's evolving proposition as both a cultural gathering space and a marketplace, a place where conversation, design and artistic practice can lead not only to encounter, but to collecting and exchange.

Works from Kubolor's Dream will be available to purchase alongside selected Le Tings and Le Parlour objects throughout the exhibition.

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