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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.
Sir John Akomfrah CBE RA (born 4 May 1957 [1]) is a Ghanaian-born British artist, writer, film director, screenwriter, theorist and curator of Ghanaian descent, whose "commitment to a radicalism both of politics and of cinematic form finds expression in all his films".
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 9, 2023 · The artist and filmmaker John Akomfrah has vivid memories of the coup that ousted Kwame Nkrumah in Ghana in 1966, when he was eight. His pan-Africanist father was an Nkrumah loyalist who “died in...
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Nov 7, 2020 · From November 9-22, John Akomfrah’s ‘Signs of Empire’ is on the gallery website, lissongallery.com. Follow @FTMag on Twitter to find out about our latest stories first.
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Feb 15, 2024 · John Akomfrah’s highly-anticipated commission for the British Pavilion at the Venice Biennale promises to be a poignant exploration of memory, migration, racial injustice, and climate change. The exhibition, set to run from April 20 to November 24, 2024, marks a significant moment in Akomfrah’s career.
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Jan 4, 2024 · John Akomfrah: the film-maker exposing the colonial adventures of microorganisms and more. The Venice Biennale-bound artist discusses his latest video work exploring the so-called Columbian...
