photomontage printed on paper, double perspex bondingNiCOLETTi
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The image presents a vibrant and vibrant floral display, with a variety of colorful blooms such as red and yellow daisies, adding depth and texture to the composition. In the foreground, a woman wearing a blue headscarf and a brightly patterned dress holds a young child, creating a touching human element within the lush, natural setting. The overall style and technique suggest a documentary or ethnographic approach, capturing a poignant moment in the lives of these individuals. The context likely reflects the artist's intention to convey the beauty and diversity of human experiences within a natural, flourishing environment. ...
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. ...
