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Jan 4, 2024 · Artist interview interview. John Akomfrah: the film-maker exposing the colonial adventures of microorganisms and more. The Venice Biennale-bound artist discusses his latest video work exploring...
Apr 16, 2024 · John Akomfrah is known for his dramatic, richly layered multiscreen video installations that use archive material and newly shot footage to challenge the conventions of film-making, and explore...
Jul 10, 2024 · It was almost entirely empty when I entered, save for a long white table in the central space where the artist John Akomfrah—in a black mandarin collar shirt, an olive scarf draped, louche, over one shoulder—had been holding court for the day, one journalist at a time.
Sir John Akomfrah CBE RA (born 4 May 1957 [1]) is a Ghanaian-born British artist, writer, film director, screenwriter, theorist and curator of Ghanaian descent, whose "commitment to a radicalism both of politics and of cinematic form finds expression in all his films".
John Akomfrah is a widely respected artist and filmmaker, whose works are characterised by their investigations into memory, postcolonialism, temporality and aesthetics and often explores the experiences of migrant diasporas globally.
Sir John Akomfrah is a hugely respected artist and filmmaker, whose works are characterised by their investigations into memory, post-Colonialism, temporality and aesthetics, and often explore the experiences of migrant diasporas globally.
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May 27, 2024 · I meet John Akomfrah on the steps of the British Pavilion on the opening day of the 2024 Venice Biennale. ‘Oh it is you’ (I had been lingering around the front, waiting for our start time). He greets me warmly, and we walk together up the stairs of the pavilion, under the front-facing screens which form CANTO I part of his new work ...