The artwork features a tall, sculptural form with a distinctive spiraling pattern, reminiscent of a shell or a coral structure. Rendered in a beige, textured material, the piece employs a minimalist aesthetic, highlighting the intricate and organic details of the form. The use of a simple concrete base adds a utilitarian element, contrasting with the delicate and intricate nature of the sculpture. This work seems to explore the interplay between natural and man-made forms, inviting the viewer to contemplate the relationship between structure, material, and artistic expression. ...
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. ...
