Josèfa Ntjam

Josèfa Ntjam

BornNationalityBased In
1992FrenchSaint-Étienne
Biography

Josèfa Ntjam is an artist, performer and writer whose practice combines sculpture, photomontage, film and sound. Collecting the raw material of her work from the internet, books on natural sciences and photographic archives, Ntjam uses assemblage – of images, words, sounds, and stories – as a method to deconstruct the grand narratives underlying hegemonic discourses on origin, identity and race. Her work weaves multiple narratives drawn from investigations into historical events, scientific functions and philosophical concepts, to which she confronts references to African mythology, ancestral rituals, religious symbolism and science-fiction. These apparently heterogeneous discourses and iconographies are marshalled together in an effort to re- appropriate History while speculating on not-yet-determined space-times – interstitial worlds where systems of perception and naming of fixed (id)entities no longer operate. From there, Ntjam composes utopian cartographies and ontological fictions in which technological fantasy, intergalactic voyages and hypothetical underwater civilizations become the matrix for a practice of emancipation that promotes the emergence of inclusive, processual and resilient communities. ...

Selected Artworks
Djouka
Huew P Newton
Josèfa Ntjam
Huew P Newton, 2023
40 x 30 x 4cm
Céremonie #1
Josèfa Ntjam
Céremonie #1, 2024
180 x 120 x 2cm
The Deep & Memories (Maquisards)
Josèfa Ntjam
The Deep & Memories (Maquisards), 2023
⌀183cm
Aquatic Saffron
Josèfa Ntjam
Aquatic Saffron, 2021
37cm ⌀33cm
Dattermitière #4
Josèfa Ntjam
Dattermitière #4, 2022
50 x 25cm
Dattermitière #3
Josèfa Ntjam
Dattermitière #3, 2022
50 x 25cm
Dattermitière #2
Josèfa Ntjam
Dattermitière #2, 2022
55 x 20cm
Nummo
Josèfa Ntjam
Nummo, 2021
15 x 60 x 40cm
The Deep & Memories (Maquisards)
Josèfa Ntjam
The Deep & Memories (Maquisards), 2023
Mami Wata on Screen
Josèfa Ntjam
Mami Wata on Screen, 2019
280 x 170cm
Aquatic Saffron
The Deep & Memories (Tentacle)
Josèfa Ntjam
The Deep & Memories (Tentacle), 2023
135 x 190cm
Dattermitière #4
Josèfa Ntjam
Dattermitière #4, 2022
50 x 25cm
Dattermitière #3
Josèfa Ntjam
Dattermitière #3, 2022
50 x 25cm
Dattermitière #2
Josèfa Ntjam
Dattermitière #2, 2022
55 x 20cm
Nummo
Josèfa Ntjam
Nummo, 2021
15 x 60 x 40cm
Vodun
Singap
Octomeutes
Josèfa Ntjam
Octomeutes, 2023
90 x 60cm
Ectocarpus #1
Josèfa Ntjam
Ectocarpus #1, 2023
180 x 120cm
Ectocarpus #2
Josèfa Ntjam
Ectocarpus #2, 2023
180 x 120cm
Hydrozoa Collectiva #1
Josèfa Ntjam
Hydrozoa Collectiva #1, 2022
Dattermitière #1
Josèfa Ntjam
Dattermitière #1, 2022
65 x 25cm
The Deep & Memories (Melting my Shapes)
Josèfa Ntjam
The Deep & Memories (Melting my Shapes), 2023
172 x 195cm
Dattermitière #5
Josèfa Ntjam
Dattermitière #5, 2022
30 x 12cm
astralizing names
Josèfa Ntjam
astralizing names, 2023
110 x 115 x 0.6cm
Shapes of Mami Wata
Josèfa Ntjam
Shapes of Mami Wata, 2019
460 x 260cm
Lascards
Josèfa Ntjam
Lascards, 2024
40 x 30 x 4cm
Bell Hooks #1
Josèfa Ntjam
Bell Hooks #1, 2024
120 x 90 x 2cm
Bell Hooks #2
Josèfa Ntjam
Bell Hooks #2, 2024
120 x 90 x 2cm
NOMMO VILLAGE
Josèfa Ntjam
NOMMO VILLAGE, 2024
90 x 60 x 2cm
Fish Tank
Josèfa Ntjam
Fish Tank, 2024
110 x 146 x 2cm
Céremonie #2
Josèfa Ntjam
Céremonie #2, 2024
180 x 120 x 2cm
MAMI
Josèfa Ntjam
MAMI, 2023
30 x 24 x 4cm
Gallery Representation
Awards
Aware Prize2020
Biennals
Venice Biennial2024 - Venice
La Biennale de Lyon2019 - Lyon
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