photomontage printed on william turner paper, glued on dibond, aluminum frame on the back of the imageNiCOLETTi
Description
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This abstract artwork features a vibrant and captivating combination of colors, including shades of green, purple, and yellow. The composition is visually striking, with a kaleidoscopic and organic quality that seems to suggest a natural or microscopic landscape. The use of lighting and transparency creates a sense of depth and movement, drawing the viewer into the intricate details of the piece. The overall style and technique employed evoke a sense of experimentation and exploration, reflecting the artist's creative and innovative approach to contemporary art. ...
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. ...
