photomontage printed on coconut and rice husk paper, resin
Description
Human-crafted. AI-refined.
The artwork features a vibrant and abstract composition, with a dominant use of warm colors like red and pink, interspersed with cool tones of blue and green. The overall design is visually striking, with a sense of energy and movement conveyed through the brushstrokes and layering of paint. The central green rectangular element stands out as a distinct focal point, potentially serving as a symbolic or conceptual anchor for the piece. The artist's intentional use of mixed media and experimental techniques suggests an exploration of the expressive potential of the painting medium, inviting the viewer to engage with the work on a deeper, emotive 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. ...
