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Oct 24, 2023 · 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 Akomfrah both familiar and ...
Sep 1, 2021 · Sept. 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...
John Akomfrah is no stranger to the Venice Biennale, but this year’s appearance – his third in just under a decade – feels different, he tells me: weightier, with more pressure and expectation. Now tasked with representing the UK, he admits that it ‘feels more urgent and demanding’.
Nov 6, 2023 · For more than four decades, John Akomfrah has sought to tell myriad tales of migration and belonging. Akomfrah left Ghana for the UK as a young child after the country’s first president, Kwame Nkrumah, was overthrown in the 1966 coup, which put his activist mother’s life in danger.
Nov 9, 2023 · “Five Murmurations” (2021), at the Smithsonian National Museum of African Art in Washington DC until January 2024, is his black-and-white film installation on Covid, George Floyd and Black ...
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September 2021. Three channel HD colour video installation, 7.1 sound. 54 minutes. Director: John Akomfrah. Producers: Lina Gopaul, David Lawson and Ashitey Akomfrah. Since March 2020, Akomfrah has been working on the longest continuous-running project of his career.
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Apr 12, 2024 · If Akomfrah, now a youthful 66, sponged up that culture in his formative years, the past four decades have seen him reinventing it, in artistic film-making that is constantly curious to re-evaluate imagined pasts. In this way, Sir John – he was knighted in last year’s New Year’s honours – never stops making sense of the political present.
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