A still from John Akomfrah’s three-screen film installation Vertigo Sea, 2015, which explores issues of slavery, conflict, migration and ecology in relationship to the seaJohn Akomfrah’s immersive and visual works consider migration and diasporic communities through the media of film.
Akomfrah will be revisiting his distinctive multi-layered style in the new work, with an installation composed of eight intersecting and overlapping screens emphasising the power in sound and listening, both as a tool for activism and for their ability to prompt an emotional connection. ‘The sense of recall that the sonic affords you feels much more connected to the past in some way,’ he adds.
The vast proportions of Akomfrah’s intersecting multi-screen installation had to be reconsidered to work with the spatial requirements of the British Pavilion’s 19th-century neoclassical building. ‘Every time you venture into a new space, you’re deciding on the form it will take. You become aware that you’re going to have to renegotiate.
A version of this article appears in the May 2024 issue of Wallpaper*, available in print from 11 April, on the Wallpaper* app on Apple iOS, and to subscribers of Apple News +. Receive our daily digest of inspiration, escapism and design stories from around the world direct to your inboxHannah Silver is the Art, Culture, Watches & Jewellery Editor of Wallpaper*.
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