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This year, the Smithsonian’s Hirshhorn and National Museum of African Art will host major exhibitions of his work. Akomfrah is a widely respected artist and filmmaker, whose works investigate ...
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- Hirshhorn
Feb 25, 2020 · Weaving a tapestry of moving images, John Akomfrah’s video essays address the questions of our time in an exhibition unlike any before at SAM. "Future History" brings together three examples...
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- Seattle Art Museum
John Akomfrah talks about his practice as a filmmaker, how he navigates between the gallery and cinema, what compelled him to make his 2015 work Vertigo Sea,...
Nov 6, 2023 · How John Akomfrah’s Videos Tell a Story of Migration and Belonging. The acclaimed filmmaker, who will represent the United Kingdom in the 2024 Venice Biennale, speaks about the restless ghosts of Ghana’s history. John Akomfrah, London, 2023. Photograph by Liz Johnson Artur for Aperture.
Jan 4, 2024 · Artist interview interview. John Akomfrah: the film-maker exposing the colonial adventures of microorganisms and more. The Venice Biennale-bound artist discusses his latest video work exploring...
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...
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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...
