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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...
Jul 10, 2024 · One thing about Akomfrah not adequately captured by the glut of press photography that has come out since the Venice announcement—always stern, looking off into the middle distance, serious—is his natural garrulousness.
Jul 16, 2024 · One thing about Akomfrah not adequately captured by the glut of press photography that has come out since the Venice announcement—always stern, looking off into the middle distance, serious—is his natural garrulousness.
Photograph by Jerry Hardman-Jones. The Unfinished Conversation, Akomfrah's newly commissioned work, was premiered on the occasion of Liverpool Biennial 2012. It examines the nature of the visual as triggered across the individual’s memory landscape with particular reference to identity and race.
John Akomfrah. Artist - Black Audio Film Collective cofounder representing the UK in the next Venice Biennale. 33 in 2023
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.
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Mar 20, 2012 · The film, which has been shown at selected independent cinemas across the UK since late January, combines archive footage of black and Asian people travelling to the UK with shots of a lone figure...
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