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Apr 13, 2021 · Pictures and details of John Akomfrah: The Unintended Beauty of Disaster at Lisson Gallery, London, April 13 – July 10, 2021 – Contemporary art with installation views.
Apr 13, 2021 · Lisson Gallery is delighted to unveil a series of new and recent works by celebrated artist, filmmaker, lecturer and writer, John Akomfrah. The exhibition includes a new three-screen video installation alongside a series of new photo-text works.
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.
Jun 17, 2021 · With Lincoln subdued and elegiac, a different kind of portrait appears: the Maryland mural of Breonna Taylor, the woman killed by police in March 2020. A stomach-punch moment in a brilliant ...
Sep 9, 2021 · Recent tragic incidences and victims of 2020, including Breonna Taylor, George Floyd and 13-year-old Adam Toledo from Chicago, find their moments in Akomfrah’s portal, echoed through imagery of tragedies in art history, such as Andrea Mantegne's Lamentation of Christ (1480).
Oct 24, 2023 · Photography by Jack Hems. 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...
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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.
