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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 · View images of the exhibition and selected artworks. John Akomfrah, 'The Unintended Beauty of Disaster' at Lisson Gallery, Lisson Street, London, United Kingdom on 13 Apr–31 Jul 2021.
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.
John Akomfrah The Unintended Beauty of Disaster 13 April – 31 July 2021 67 Lisson Street, London 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.
Sep 1, 2021 · LONDON — Shortly before the artist and filmmaker John Akomfrah left Ghana for Britain after a 1966 coup, the nine-year-old-boy had a final encounter with his grandfather, the High Priest of the...
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).
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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.
