We Proceed in the Footsteps of the Sunlight

We Proceed in the Footsteps of the Sunlight presents the first museum survey exhibition of Ghanaian-German artist Zohra Opoku. Working across textile-based installation, photography, printmaking, and sculpture, Opoku builds a layered visual language through fabric, personal history, and cultural heritage, exploring the intersections of identity, memory, ancestral lineage, and selfhood. Curated by Beata America and Dr Phokeng Setai, the exhibition maps the artist’s trajectory over the past decade through major bodies of work anchored by the recurring elements of water, breath, and ground. These motifs structure Opoku’s reflections on ritual, spirit, rootedness, familial belonging, and the movement between cultures, geographies, and time. The exhibition’s title draws from the Book of the Dead, or Coming Forth by Day, and is framed by Opoku as a declaration of passage through turbulence and toward transformation. Trained in fashion design and photography, the artist extends textile processes into tactile installations and sculptural forms that function as an intimate archive of lived experience and diasporic memory. Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa, Silo District, South Arm Road, V&A Waterfront, Cape Town, 8002, South Africa. Runs September 11, 2025 -October 4, 2026.