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1. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › John_AkomfrahJohn Akomfrah - Wikipedia

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   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".

2. www.smithsonianmag.com › smithsonian-institutionArtist John Akomfrah Is Having a Moment | Smithsonian

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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...

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3. www.frieze.com › disenchanting-world-john-akomfrahThe Disenchanting World of John Akomfrah | Frieze

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   Portrait of John Akomfrah, 2024. Image commissioned for frieze. Photograph: Suzannah Pettigrew. Due to the timing of our interview, Akomfrah is subject to an embargo meaning that he can only reveal so much about what would be on view at the British pavilion.

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4. www.prospectmagazine.co.uk › culture › 67230Multiple lives, one John Akomfrah - Prospect

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   Jul 10, 2024 · Multiple lives, one John Akomfrah. For 40 years, the artist has used film to wrestle with questions of identity and coexistence. Now, fresh from Venice, he looks back on it all. By David McAllister. July 10, 2024.

5. art.newcity.com › 2024/10/09 › sublime-hauntology-aReview: "John Akomfrah: Four Nocturnes" at Wrightwood 659

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   Oct 9, 2024 · Today’s visual culture has fundamentally changed our relationship with photographic images. “Four Nocturnes” was made and shown in a time before the emergence of AI images and videos. The work is no doubt a masterpiece but one that has reached the apex of photographic realism that affords its status based on its unquestioned photographic ...

6. www.glasgowlife.org.uk › news › display-of-newJohn Akomfrah’s Mimesis: African Soldier — Glasgow Life

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   Aug 30, 2024 · John Akomfrah’s Mimesis: African Soldier opens 26 October. Glasgow’s Gallery of Modern Art (GoMA) has announced its next main gallery exhibition, John Akomfrah ’s Mimesis: African Soldier, which reflects on the experience of soldiers from across the Commonwealth in World War 1.

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   Who is John Akomfrah?

   • Akomfrah was chosen to represent Britain at the Venice Biennale in 2024. [ 7 ] John Akomfrah was born in Accra, Dominion of Ghana, to parents who were involved with anti-colonial activism. In an interview with Sukhdev Sandhu, Akomfrah said: "My dad was a member of the cabinet of Kwame Nkrumah 's party....

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   Who is Akomfrah and what did he do for a living?

   • In 1998, together with Lina Gopaul and David Lawson, his long-term producing partners, Akomfrah co-founded Smoking Dogs Films. [ 8 ] From 2001 to 2007, he served as a Governor of the British Film Institute. [ 9 ] From 2004 to 2013, he served as a governor of the film organisation Film London.

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   Is it a coincidence that Akomfrah was asked to do something?

   • “Nor is it a coincidence that when I was asked to do something I was like, ‘Yes!’” It was in 1982 that Akomfrah, who had moved to the United Kingdom with his family as a child, co-founded the Black Audio Film Collective. One of the collective’s significant early works was the single-channel piece Handsworth Songs, which Akomfrah directed.

   Artist John Akomfrah Is Having a Moment | At the Smithsonian

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   When does John Akomfrah 5 Murmurations open?

   • “John Akomfrah: Purple” continues at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington, D.C. through January 7, 2024. “John Akomfrah: Five Murmurations” opened October 14 at the National Museum of African Art in Washington, D.C. Its closing date hasn’t been determined.

   Artist John Akomfrah Is Having a Moment | At the Smithsonian

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   Where are Akomfrah's works found?

   • [ 13 ] Akomfrah's works are included in the permanent collections of museums worldwide such as the Smithsonian 's Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, the Pérez Art Museum Miami, [ 14 ] the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, among many others.

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   What is Akomfrah's 'mimesis'?

   • More recently, Akomfrah debuted his work Mimesis: African Soldier (2018) at the Imperial War Museum in London, commissioned by 1418 Now. The piece explores the often overlooked role of hundreds of thousands of soldiers from across continental Africa in the First World War and features rarely seen archive material.

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8. www.royalacademy.org.uk › name › john-akomfrah-raSir John Akomfrah | Artist | Royal Academy of Arts

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   John Akomfrah is a widely respected artist and filmmaker, whose works are characterised by their investigations into memory, postcolonialism, temporality and aesthetics and often explores the experiences of migrant diasporas globally.