This immersive installation features a vibrant collage of colorful images that transport the viewer into a fantastical tropical paradise. The composition is a kaleidoscope of bold hues, with prominent shapes and silhouettes evoking a surreal, dreamlike atmosphere. The subject matter blends natural elements, such as lush palm trees and exotic wildlife, with whimsical, anthropomorphized figures, creating a sense of magical realism. The artist's technique combines digital media and mixed media, creating a visually striking and immersive experience that invites the audience to explore the boundaries between reality and imagination. This work aims to transport the viewer to a realm of wonder and imagination, reflecting the artist's intention to challenge conventional perceptions and inspire a sense of curiosity and delight. ...
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. ...
