photomontage printed on kozo (thick) paper, aluminum frame on the back of the imageNiCOLETTi
Description
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This contemporary art exhibition showcases a diverse range of vibrant and visually captivating works. The pieces feature bold, abstract expressions of color and light, with intricate patterns and dynamic compositions. The subject matter appears to explore themes of nature, energy, and the interplay of organic and cosmic elements. The artistic style and techniques employed demonstrate a mastery of digital media and photography, creating immersive and imaginative visual experiences. The overall context suggests an exploration of the intersection between art, science, and the natural world, inviting viewers to engage with the symbolic and emotive qualities of the artwork. ...
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. ...
