Akosua Viktoria Adu-Sanyah: No Flowers

No Flowers forms a chapter within the body of work “Delirium” by German-Ghanaian artist Akosua Viktoria Adu-Sanyah who is based in Zurich, Switzerland. It unfolds around the absence of ritual and the refusal of disappearance. At its center is her father: following his death in 2021—without funeral, without ceremony—the work develops as a delayed gesture of attendance. Flowers accumulate around his image: excessive, artificial, unstable. The images originate from a small number of photographic negatives, processed through an image-to-image generative system without the use of language, and subsequently translated back into negative material and printed in the darkroom. Distortion and return operate as a single movement: the image is broken, then brought back into physical presence. The book itself is conceived as a site of holding—where image, text, and process converge as a form of insistence.