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The palette of images includes found material from the BBC’s archive of nature films as well as excerpts from TV reportages on the whaling industry and refugees on the Mediterranean Sea, plus new footage that the artist recorded on the Isle of Skye, the Faroe Islands, and in northern Norway. Stunning footage of natural scenes serves as the backdrop for a multifaceted reflection interweaving history, fiction, and philosophy. In Vertigo Sea, the artist moreover brings climate change into focus, scrutinizing the complex interconnections between humanity’s devastation of the natural world and its self-destructive impulses. A recurrent motif in his art that connects all three works on film is water, which acts as a reservoir of recollections in the immensity of the ocean, it also marks the scene of the colonial conquests and the transatlantic slave trade as well as contemporary migrant flows. Many of the artist’s immersive video installations are multichannel visual compositions, unfolding contrasts and dialogues between image and sound to explore the implications of various junctures and stories.Īt the Secession, John Akomfrah presents three film installations whose themes complement one another: the three-channel projection Vertigo Sea (2015) and the two single-channel pieces Peripeteia (2012) and Mnemosyne (2010). His editing consistently defies monolithic narratives and historical chronology. Early on in his career, he established the multifaceted visual style of his filmic essays, for which he combines archival material from different periods of history, writings from literary and classical sources, and newly shot sequences in distinctive and poetic montages. A founding member of the influential Black Audio Film Collective (1982–1998), he continues to work with his long-term creative partners David Lawson and Lina Gopaul. The filmmaker and screenwriter John Akomfrah’s atmospheric films probe the structure of memory, the diasporic experiences of migrants, and the historical, social, and political roots of postcolonialism. John Akomfrah February 21 – June 21, 2020
Association of Visual Artists Vienna Secession.
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