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Oct 9, 2024 · Conceived as the third piece for a trilogy, after “Vertigo Sea” (2015) and “Purple” (2017), “Four Nocturnes” is a continuation of Akomfrah’s wrought investigation into the colonial history and migratory journeys on the continent of Africa, against the backdrop of a worsening climate and hardened racial injustice over the world.
- Nicky Ni
Akomfrah tells me that, upon reviewing a segment of Handsworth Songs recently, he noted ‘the tone of elegy that underscored the project’, realizing he was also still ‘struck by its inherent melancholia’ and the sense of it being ‘a truly modernist project which says: “There is nothing new here.”’.
Apr 23, 2024 · With 62 screens and 31 hours of footage, veteran video artist John Akomfrah’s Venice Biennale work, ‘Listening All Night to the Rain’, is a visual feast, exploring the best and worst of our...
Jun 17, 2021 · Enveloping, enthralling, sublime: Four Nocturnes (2019), the centrepiece of The Unintended Beauty of Disaster, Lisson Gallery’s new show by the British artist John Akomfrah, is part of a...
Jan 4, 2024 · The Venice Biennale-bound artist discusses his latest video work exploring the so-called Columbian exchange and tells us why his films owe a debt to cinema but are “rendered slightly strange ...
Mar 4, 2016 · A 48-minute, three-screen installation bringing together material sourced from thousands of hours of archival footage, screened alongside various austere, Victorian-inspired tableaux of the littoral, Akomfrah’s film explores a difficult range of histories – from whaling, nuclear testing and deep-sea executions to the recent Mediterranean migrati...
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Oct 20, 2021 · John Akomfrah gives visual and historical shape to crises of the 2020s—pandemic, police violence, oppression—without diluting their forms.
