What Stays Inside, 2025, mixed media, 70 x 10 x 10 in. / 177.8 x 25.4 x 25.4 cm.

What Stays Inside, Ezekiel Martey, 2025, mixed media, 70 x 10 x 10 in. / 177.8 x 25.4 x 25.4 cm.

Jute sack, packaging straps, wood, brass

This is a tilted wood box layered with a jute sack stamped with "Produce of Ghana". This work speaks to the instability and disappointment migrants often face within. They arrive with hope, yet face barriers and part of themselves left unseen and unheard.