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Apr 13, 2021 · Pictures and details of John Akomfrah: The Unintended Beauty of Disaster at Lisson Gallery, London, April 13 – July 10, 2021 – Contemporary art with installation views.
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.
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.
Five Murmurations (Cinco Murmúrios) é a resposta de John Akomfrah, artista ganês que mora em Londres, à pandemia global, ao assassinato de George Floyd e aos protestos mundiais em apoio ao movimento “Vidas Negras Importam” (Black Lives Matter). Trata-se de um ensaio visual dos tempos atuais.
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".
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 Lamentation of Christ (1480).
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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...
