photomontage printed on ultra smooth paper, glued on dibond, aluminum frame on the back of the imageNiCOLETTi
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The gallery space features a dynamic installation with vibrant, otherworldly visuals. The composition utilizes a range of bold colors, including deep blues, fiery reds, and neon purples, creating an immersive and visually striking environment. The artwork appears to depict abstract, biomorphic forms and organic shapes, hinting at surreal, dreamlike subject matter. The artist employs a combination of multimedia techniques, incorporating projected imagery, lighting, and textured surfaces to craft a visually captivating and immersive experience. This installation likely aims to transport the viewer to a fantastical, imaginary realm, inviting them to contemplate the intersection of the natural and the surreal. ...
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. ...
