This contemporary art installation features a vibrant, multicolored mural as the backdrop, with various sculptural elements placed in the foreground. The mural showcases a kaleidoscopic blend of organic shapes, bold hues, and expressive brushwork, creating an immersive and visually striking atmosphere. The sculptural pieces, including large, amorphous shapes in deep, matte colors and curving, serpentine forms, complement the dynamic mural and invite the viewer to engage with the space. The overall composition and the interplay between the two-dimensional and three-dimensional elements suggest a playful exploration of themes related to nature, perception, and the boundaries between the physical and the imaginary. ...
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. ...
