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Jan 14, 2017 · John Akomfrah is a ground-breaking British artist and filmmaker of Ghanaian descent who brings to the fore questions of race and post-colonial identity in his installations and films. Presented to coincide with Black History Month in February 2017, his acclaimed film The Last Angel of History (1996) introduces audiences to the “data thief ...
Jan 4, 2024 · Photo: Smoking Dogs Films. The British-Ghanaian artist John Akomfrah has been pushing the boundaries of film for more than four decades. Having started out with experimental documentaries...
John Akomfrah. Artist - Black Audio Film Collective cofounder representing the UK in the next Venice Biennale. 33 in 2023
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.
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.
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...
