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1. www.smithsonianmag.com › smithsonian-institutionArtist John Akomfrah Is Having a Moment | Smithsonian

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   Oct 24, 2023 · Already this year Akomfrah has been knighted—and chosen to represent Great Britain in the 2024 Venice Biennale, where he’s been featured twice before.

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2. www.theartnewspaper.com › 2024/01/04 › john-akomfrahJohn Akomfrah: the film-maker exposing the colonial ...

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   Jan 4, 2024 · Akomfrah was knighted last year, and 2024 brings yet another major milestone as he prepares to represent Great Britain at the Venice Biennale. This follows on from his 2019 contribution to the...

3. aperture.org › editorial › how-john-akomfrahs-videosHow John Akomfrah’s Videos Tell a Story of Migration and ...

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   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 ...

4. www.wallpaper.com › art › john-akomfrah-explores-theVenice Biennale 2024: John Akomfrah on exploring the sonic at ...

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   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.

5. www.prospectmagazine.co.uk › culture › 67230Multiple lives, one John Akomfrah

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   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.

6. www.theartnewspaper.com › 2024/04/16 › john-akomfrahJohn Akomfrah: ‘What are the histories, the questions, the ...

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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...

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   Will Akomfrah represent Great Britain at the Venice Biennale 2024?

   • Akomfrah was knighted last year, and 2024 brings yet another major milestone as he prepares to represent Great Britain at the Venice Biennale. This follows on from his 2019 contribution to the inaugural Ghana pavilion in Venice.

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   What is Akomfrah doing now?

   • This follows on from his 2019 contribution to the inaugural Ghana pavilion in Venice. In the run-up to this year’s Biennale, Akomfrah has released a new work, Arcadia (2023), exhibited first at the Sharjah Biennial and now in an edited form at The Box in Plymouth, UK.

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   Who is John Akomfrah?

   • Photography by Jack Hems. 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 especially compelling. And the Ghanaian-born, London-based filmmaker is getting noticed for it.

   Artist John Akomfrah Is Having a Moment | At the Smithsonian

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   What will Akomfrah do at the Venice Biennale?

   • Akomfrah is a truly global thinker. Imaginatively addressing some of our most pressing existential concerns, his work will captivate viewers at the Venice Biennale.” Emma Ridgway, Director, Foundling Museum London, and Shane Akeroyd Associate Curator of Sonia Boyce: Feeling Her Way, British Pavilion, La Biennale di Venezia 2022

   Artist and filmmaker John Akomfrah RA to represent ... - British Council

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   Jan 24, 2023 · ARTIST and filmmaker John Akomfrah RA will represent Great Britain at the 60th International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia in 2024, the British Council has announced.