This contemporary sculpture features a striking abstract form composed of intricate, overlapping spiral shapes. The predominant earthy brown tones and the textured, coiled surface create a sense of organic, almost biological movement. The asymmetrical, tapered design and the sculptural base suggest an architectural or monumental quality, hinting at themes of growth, transformation, or technological advancement. The artist's use of additive techniques, such as layering and wrapping, results in a dynamic, visually compelling work that invites the viewer to contemplate its enigmatic meaning and the creative process behind it. ...
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. ...
