photomontage printed on paper, double perspex bondingNiCOLETTi
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This abstract contemporary artwork features a vibrant and kaleidoscopic composition. The canvas is filled with a dynamic interplay of bold, intersecting shapes and a harmonious blend of vivid colors, ranging from deep purples and blues to fiery oranges and yellows. The overall visual effect is one of movement and energy, with a dreamlike, almost surreal quality. The artist's distinctive technique likely involves the use of digital manipulation or collage, creating a sense of fragmentation and distortion within the imagery. This striking work invites the viewer to engage with its captivating visual narrative and explore the creative vision behind its intricate, mind-bending design. ...
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. ...
