photomontage printed on ultra smooth paper, aluminum frame on the back of the imageNiCOLETTi
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This contemporary art exhibition showcases a vibrant and visually captivating display. The vivid colors, intricate shapes, and dynamic compositions create a sense of immersion and exploration. The artwork appears to depict fantastical, surreal, and imaginative scenes, with elements of nature, abstract forms, and whimsical figures. The distinctive techniques employed, such as the use of illumination and textured surfaces, contribute to the dreamlike and immersive quality of the pieces. This exhibition offers a thought-provoking exploration of the artist's unique creative vision and invites the viewer to engage with the imaginative and multifaceted world presented. ...
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. ...
