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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.
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. Artist - Black Audio Film Collective cofounder representing the UK in the next Venice Biennale. 33 in 2023
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.
Jun 17, 2021 · Prayer begins slowly, Lincoln’s haunting notes allied to Akomfrah’s images of oceans, archival images washed up in the surf, and the first lingering, beautiful portraits.
Oct 20, 2021 · John Akomfrah gives visual and historical shape to crises of the 2020s—pandemic, police violence, oppression—without diluting their forms.
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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...
