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Sir John Akomfrah, The Secret Life of Memorable Things, Cork Street Galleries Banners Commission 2024, courtesy Cork Street Galleries and The Pollen Estate. Photo Credit: Luke Hayes.
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.
Sep 1, 2021 · By Elizabeth Fullerton. 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...
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.
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.
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Mar 20, 2012 · The film, which has been shown at selected independent cinemas across the UK since late January, combines archive footage of black and Asian people travelling to the UK with shots of a lone figure...