This contemporary art installation features a vibrant and dynamic visual composition. The artwork utilizes a diverse palette of colors, including bold reds, oranges, and purples, which create a visually striking and immersive environment. The composition incorporates various organic shapes and forms, such as the large, rounded sculptures and the abstract floral-like patterns on the wall. The use of light and shadow adds depth and dimension to the piece, with the glowing orbs and reflections on the dark floor creating a sense of depth and movement. The overall effect is a visually captivating and thought-provoking work that invites the viewer to engage with the space and explore the interplay of form, color, and light. The artist's intention may be to challenge traditional notions of art and encourage a more immersive and experiential engagement with the artwork. ...
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. ...
