In Reflection, Cornelius Annor offers an evocative glimpse into familial life through a richly textured composition that blurs the line between memory and archive. Working from Accra, Ghana, Annor draws on childhood recollections and family photographs to depict scenes of domestic intimacy, moments of rest, conversation, and kinship. The figures, often softly rendered or incomplete, seem to drift through time, as though viewed through the gentle haze of recollection.

Annor’s use of traditional Ghanaian textiles, sourced from women in his family, adds a tactile, emotional layer to the work. His distinctive fabric transfer technique leaves faded impressions in the background, echoing the way memory lingers and erodes. These material traces, combined with acrylic paint and precise draughtsmanship, reflect his ongoing dialogue between personal memory and collective history.

His paintings are meant to inspire time travel, whisking the viewer away from the immediacy of the present to inhabit a memory from the past. While rooted in his own experience, Annor seeks a universal resonance, an emotional familiarity that allows viewers to recognize their own families in his. There is a warmth in the way his figures turn toward each other or gently touch, gestures that quietly celebrate the enduring intimacy of kinship across time and space