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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...
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.
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...
John Akomfrah. 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]
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 ...
Apr 13, 2021 · View images of the exhibition and selected artworks. John Akomfrah, 'The Unintended Beauty of Disaster' at Lisson Gallery, Lisson Street, London, United Kingdom on 13 Apr–31 Jul 2021. Discover the Best of Contemporary Art