This contemporary ceramic sculpture features a distinctive spiral form in a neutral, earthy hue. The intricate spiraling texture and pointed apex create a dynamic sculptural composition. The piece is mounted on a simple concrete plinth, highlighting the focus on form and materiality. The artist's use of coiled clay techniques and minimal aesthetic suggests an exploration of abstract, organic shapes and the interplay of light and shadow. This sculptural work likely reflects the artist's interest in traditional craft methods and their ability to imbue everyday materials with a sense of timeless, meditative beauty. ...
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. ...
