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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.
Nov 7, 2020 · The show also features new photographic works based on Akomfrah’s recent “Our Skin Is a Monument I” (2020), part of whose proceeds support emerging UK-based black and ethnic-minority ...
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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.
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".
Jun 18, 2020 · On Thursday 18 June 2020 Lisson Gallery hosted a live discussion with artist and filmmaker John Akomfrah, alongside theorist and Professor of Humanities and Modern Culture and Media at Brown University, Tina Campt and author, literary scholar and Professor at Columbia University, Saidiya Hartman.
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 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...
