This contemporary sculpture features an abstract, sculptural composition composed of various geometric forms and textures. The work utilizes a muted color palette of grays, whites, and soft pinks, creating a minimalist and understated aesthetic. The dominant shapes include cylindrical forms, as well as intricate, layered structures that resemble architectural elements or natural formations. The overall impression is one of contemplative stillness and an exploration of the interplay between positive and negative space. The artist's intention seems to be investigating the relationship between materiality, form, and the viewer's perception, inviting a thoughtful engagement with the sculptural work. ...
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. ...
