John Akomfrah
Pérez Art Museum in Miami, United States John Akomfrah: Tropikos presents the artist’s 2016 film Tropikos, which examines the original encounter between European explorers and the people of Africa in the 16th century. This ... peoples, inject the film with a hallucinatory quality, offering a hyperreal waking dream of the 1500s. John Akomfrah: Tropikos marks the North American debut of this film.
John Akomfrah (b. 1957, Accra, Ghana ... Arts, London; Portsmouth University; and Goldsmiths, University of London. Akomfrah lives and works in London.
John Akomfrah, Tropikos, 2016., Digital color video, with sound, 36 min., 41 sec. Collection Pérez Art Museum Miami, museum purchase