photomontage printed on coconut and rice husk paper, flower petals, shells, resinNiCOLETTi
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The painting presents a vibrant and ethereal visual landscape, blending a kaleidoscope of colors and organic forms. The composition is characterized by bold brushstrokes and a dreamlike quality, creating an abstract, almost hallucinatory effect. The overall impression is one of a lush, primordial world, brimming with a sense of mysticism and the subconscious. The artist's intentional use of unconventional techniques and materials likely reflects an exploration of the boundaries between representation and abstraction, inviting the viewer to engage with the work on a deeply emotional and interpretive level. ...
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. ...
