Amoako Boafo is a painter, born in Accra, Ghana, based in Vienna, Austria. He states: “The primary idea of my practice is representation, documenting, celebrating and showing new ways to approach blackness.” Indeed, much of his work is inspired by his upbringing, commenting on how males are raised to be aggressive and masculine, which he challenges in his works. Although the artists underlying messages are quite intense, there is a certain softness to the works as a whole