Rejuvenate

Martin Toloku received a grant for the development of new work. Rejuvenate is a performance project that combines traditional wood carving with a procession of seven performers who took to the streets of Accra, Ghana, during the 2025 Chale Wote Street Art Festival. The work critically explores how our actions—and inactions—shape the future. It serves as a call for awareness: the choices we make today lay the foundation for generations to come. Through ritualistic elements and a touch of fashion, Rejuvenate evokes a powerful energy of renewal.

Martin is a multidisciplinary artist whose practice has evolved over the years from wood carving to installation, performance, video work, studio practice, and collaborations with animals—particularly termites and aquatic species. He is fascinated by the deterioration of materials and the memories they carry. His work investigates spontaneity as a form of revolutionary aesthetics and experiments with decay in relation to time, space, life, and death. Martin is a board member of the perfocraZe International Artist Residency (pIAR) in Kumasi, Ghana, and an alumnus of the Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten in Amsterdam.