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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...
Oct 20, 2021 · The present-day footage gives way to a dizzying, disturbing variety of older images: smeary archival photographs of Black African men posing with white European colonizers; Andrea Mantegna’s ...
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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...
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.
Apr 13, 2021 · Lisson Gallery is delighted to unveil a series of new and recent works by celebrated artist, filmmaker, lecturer and writer, John Akomfrah. The exhibition includes a new three-screen video installation alongside a series of new photo-text works.
Sep 9, 2021 · Pictures and details of John Akomfrah: FIVE MURMURATIONS at Lisson Gallery, New York, September 9 – October 16, 2021 – Contemporary art with installation views.
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Apr 15, 2021 · With a relentless video onslaught, Akomfrah confronts colonialism, slavery, migrants and the obliteration of the natural world with astonishing results. The images slide across three screens in relentless succession.
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