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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.
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 High...
Akomfrah then weaves together an extensive archive of images that mix iconic works of art with scenes shot and gathered in the globally fraught 18-month period between 2019 and 2021. The filmmaker combines what he calls “current emotional states”—sitting alone with one’s phone or staring out the window—with “states of emotions ...
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).
Oct 20, 2021 · John Akomfrah gives visual and historical shape to crises of the 2020s—pandemic, police violence, oppression—without diluting their forms.
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Oct 24, 2023 · Photography from Alaska, French Polynesia and Greenland is juxtaposed with archival images of industry, political movements and even scenes of life and death, with the sounds of burbling...
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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.
