This abstract sculptural piece features an intricate, swirling form rendered in a dark, earthy tone. The sculpture appears to be constructed using a layered, textural technique, creating a sense of movement and dynamism. The overall composition is centered and balanced, with the tall, spiraling structure rising from a simple concrete base. The work embodies a sense of architectural grandeur and organic fluidity, hinting at themes of growth, transformation, or perhaps the interplay between natural and built elements. The artist's innovative approach to material and form likely reflects contemporary sensibilities and a desire to challenge conventional sculptural practices. ...
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. ...
