The Ghanaian artist Amoako Boafo works mostly in portraiture. He paints with his fingers, turning thick, colorful impastos into people. Boafo hopes his subjects represent a range of Black life, building out the diaspora. His title for this exhibition is an ode to Pan-Africanism and to the seminal 1903 essay collection of W. E. B. Du Bois, The Souls of Black Folk. Du Bois—who is buried in Accra, Ghana, not far from where Boafo grew up—conducted research that resulted in the phrase “double-consciousness,” which describes how Black people have to look at themselves through the eyes of others. Boafo dives into the idea of Black subjectivity, taking in Black joy, the Black gaze, and the concept of radical care. The exhibition presents paintings created between 2016 and 2022, and includes a site-specific wall made for CAMH. —Clara Molot