photomontage printed by sublimation on aluminium, metal frameNiCOLETTi
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The vibrant artwork captures a surreal, underwater world with kaleidoscopic colors and organic shapes. The overall composition is a mesmerizing blend of shimmering hues, creating a dreamlike, psychedelic atmosphere. The prominently featured fish-like creature is obscured by a swirling array of abstract, bubble-like forms, adding to the sense of mysticism and the artist's unconventional approach. This visually striking piece seems to explore the interplay between the natural and the ethereal, inviting the viewer to immerse themselves in a visually captivating, otherworldly realm. ...
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. ...
