This contemporary art piece features a striking arrangement of vibrant, organic shapes and forms. The dominant colors are shades of orange and red, creating a warm, fiery palette. The composition is visually dynamic, with various textures and structures suspended from ropes, including a menorah-like candelabra and what appear to be natural, honeycomb-like structures. The overall effect is one of playful, imaginative symbolism, evoking themes of ritual, nature, and the interplay of light and shadow. The artist's intention seems to explore the intersection of the sacred and the primal, blending diverse cultural references into a captivating visual statement. ...
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. ...
