Nubuke Foundation presents ‘Ending the Beginning’, an exhibition featuring the works of second-generation figurative coffin maker Eric Kpakpo and photographs by Regula Tschumi (@regulatschumi).

Kpakpo’s practice—rooted in Ga funerary traditions and shaped by his apprenticeship with Paa Joe—extends the lineage of figurative coffin making through bold colour, hand-painted surfaces, and refined woodcarving. His forms speak to contemporary expressions of identity, memory, and community.

Eric’s work will be complemented by the photography of Regula Tschumi, a Swiss social anthropologist, PhD graduate, and photographer. Having chosen photography as a means of documenting her ethnographic research in Ghana, her images have become an invaluable resource for studying the traditions of the Ga people.

Her photographs are so authentic that they offer an intimate and open encounter with individuals, even in death. Since 2006, her documentary images of figurative coffins and burial rituals have been exhibited numerous times, including at the Museum of Sepulchral Culture in Kassel, Germany.

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