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Jan 4, 2024 · In the run-up to this year’s Biennale, Akomfrah has released a new work, Arcadia (2023), exhibited first at the Sharjah Biennial and now in an edited form at The Box in Plymouth, UK. The film ...
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.
Oct 24, 2023 · Our daily immersion in a bombardment of images, in repeated patterns, at a fraught moment in contemporary history, makes the multichannel work of the artist John Akomfrah both familiar and...
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 CBE is a Ghana-born pioneering filmmaker and artist based in London. He is internationally known for his collaboratively produced films and multi-screen video installations exploring memory, temporality, colonialism and post-colonialism, and experiences of global diaspora.
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Oct 9, 2024 · Akomfrah takes advantage of the three-channel video by providing, simultaneously, shots of different angles and distances of the same scenes—such as one where they meet—as though he was emphasizing the very instant by saying “It has happened, I see it, and we all see it.”
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Five Murmurations is London-based, Ghanaian-born artist John Akomfrah’s response to the global pandemic, murder of George Floyd, and worldwide protests in support of Black Lives Matter. It is a visual essay of our current times.
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