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Apr 16, 2024 · John Akomfrah is known for his dramatic, richly layered multiscreen video installations that use archive material and newly shot footage to challenge the conventions of film-making, and explore...
Nov 6, 2023 · In 2019, Akomfrah was one of six artists invited to show at Ghana’s first-ever pavilion at the Venice Biennale, and in 2024 he will represent Great Britain at the international event. Akomfrah’s practice and oeuvre is testament to the notion of hybridity: his project is to name the political ghosts and specters that haunt the present day ...
Jul 10, 2024 · Multiple lives, one John Akomfrah. For 40 years, the artist has used film to wrestle with questions of identity and coexistence. Now, fresh from Venice, he looks back on it all. By David McAllister. July 10, 2024.
Apr 9, 2024 · Now, in new work for the Venice Biennale, commissioned and managed by the British Council, Akomfrah is dissecting a historical narrative through an auditory lens, putting sound at the centre of his new piece, Listening All Night To The Rain.
Jan 27, 2023 · The British Council has commissioned John Akomfrah for the British Pavilion at the Venice Biennale in 2024. The artist and film-maker, who was knighted in the 2023 UK honours list, came to prominence with Handsworth Songs (1986), a feature-length documentary on the 1985 riots in Birmingham and London, directed by Akomfrah and produced by the ...
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