photomontage printed on perspex, polished edgesNiCOLETTi
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This abstract artwork features a vibrant, kaleidoscopic composition of vivid colors and dynamic shapes. The canvas is filled with a surreal, dreamlike blend of organic and geometric forms, creating a sense of movement and energy. The artist employs a range of techniques, including collage, digital manipulation, and layering, to produce an intriguing visual experience that blurs the boundaries between the natural and the artificial. The work's enigmatic subject matter and experimental style invite the viewer to engage with the artwork on a deeper, more imaginative level, reflecting the artist's intention to explore the subconscious and evoke a transcendent, otherworldly atmosphere. ...
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. ...
