Elevating heritage: ADIRE meets the algorithm

The murals came first — large-scale public work rooted in community and place, ADIRE lifted off the body and onto the wall. But the exhibition's real provocation was quieter: a series in which traditional indigo pattern was reinterpreted by generative systems.

Heritage Now went to Accra expecting a celebration of craft. We found something more searching — an argument that heritage is not a fixed object but a conversation.

A tradition you are not allowed to change is a tradition you have already lost.

— Lateefat Tobun

Paired with a live printing workshop, the show reconnected craft and identity for everyone who walked through it.

It is a generous way to think about culture — as something held in common and kept alive precisely because it is allowed to move.