photomontage printed on ultra smooth paper, aluminum frame on the back of the imageNiCOLETTi
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This eclectic contemporary art exhibition features vibrant, surreal landscapes and striking sculptural forms. The diptych painting showcases a dynamic, kaleidoscopic composition with swirling colors and abstract shapes reminiscent of an underwater scene. The contrasting sculptural pieces depict fantastical, humanoid figures in dramatic poses, utilizing bold, fiery tones and textured surfaces. The overall artistic style blends elements of surrealism, expressionism, and imaginative symbolism, inviting the viewer to explore the subconscious and fantastical realms depicted. This thought-provoking exhibition likely aims to challenge conventional perspectives and invite deeper contemplation of the human experience and its relationship with the natural world. ...
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. ...
