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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.
Born the son of Ghanaian political activists, artist and filmmaker John Akomfrah unapologetically tackles thorny debates around post-colonialism, diasporic memory and black identity in his praised and prized video works.
Jul 10, 2024 · One thing about Akomfrah not adequately captured by the glut of press photography that has come out since the Venice announcement—always stern, looking off into the middle distance, serious—is his natural garrulousness.
Oct 7, 2024 · October 07, 2024. As you approach the British Pavilion at the Venice Biennale, you are immediately enveloped by the atmospheric brilliance of Sir John Akomfrah ‘s monumental installation, “Listening All Night to the Rain.”
The Unfinished Conversation is Akomfrah’s first large-scale video installation, building on his work as part of the Black Audio Film Collective, a group active in the United Kingdom from 1982 to 1998. Known for its essayistic films, the collective integrated archival footage to critically reevaluate what it described as the “figuration of ...
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.
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Jan 4, 2024 · The Venice Biennale-bound artist discusses his latest video work exploring the so-called Columbian exchange and tells us why his films owe a debt to cinema but are “rendered slightly strange”
