Dimitri Fagbohoun. Photo by Hélène Jayet
A new solo exhibition by Beninese-Ukrainian-French artist, Dimitri Fagbohoun, will open at The Mix Art Gallery in Accra on Friday, December 12, 2025.
Titled, ‘The Revenants’ and sponsored by Adetoye Aguessy, the exhibition explores identity, spirituality and memory through a contemporary re-examination of Vodun and its global perceptions.
Fagbohoun, who works across sculpture, photography and installation, draws on his plural identity and personal history to question inherited cultural models. Born in Cotonou to a Beninese father and Ukrainian mother, raised in Cameroon and now based in France, his art investigates the boundaries between geography, heritage and belonging.
The Revenants continues this inquiry, presenting works that invite viewers to reconsider how ancestral knowledge, diaspora histories and spiritual frameworks are understood. The exhibition encourages audiences to reflect critically on longstanding misconceptions about Vodun and to engage with it beyond stereotypical or externalised narratives.
Curator Essé Dabla-Attikpo describes the project as an invitation to “unlearn” simplified ideas about Vodun. “Vodun is not fixed, tame or easily understood; it demands that we unlearn what we thought we knew,” she noted, urging institutions and collectors to adopt a more nuanced approach to indigenous belief systems.
The exhibition will feature more than 20 newly commissioned works, including immersive installations that combine material experimentation with spatial storytelling.