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John Akomfrah is a widely respected artist and filmmaker, whose works are characterised by their investigations into memory, postcolonialism, temporality and aesthetics and often explores the experiences of migrant diasporas globally.
Jun 17, 2021 · Enveloping, enthralling, sublime: Four Nocturnes (2019), the centrepiece of The Unintended Beauty of Disaster, Lisson Gallery’s new show by the British artist John Akomfrah, is part of a...
Oct 9, 2024 · Today’s visual culture has fundamentally changed our relationship with photographic images. “Four Nocturnes” was made and shown in a time before the emergence of AI images and videos.
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Akomfrah was born in Ghana’s capital, Accra, in 1957 – a little less than two months after the country declared its independence from the UK.
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 ...
In 2019 Akomfrah presented Four Nocturnes (2019) in the Ghana Pavilion at the 58th Venice Biennale, a three-channel piece reflecting on the intertwined relationship between humanity’s destruction of the natural world and our of ourselves.
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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).
