John Akomfrah, Vertigo Sea, 2015
installation

John Akomfrah é um dos artistas e cineastas mais importantes numa reflexão, profunda e crítica, sobre o mundo actual e sobre o que pensadores diversos designaram como o pós-colonialismo. Pensadores como Franz Fanon, com o seu imenso Black Skin, White Masks, de 1952 ou Achille Mbembe, com o seu
Critique of Black Reason, de 2017, entre outros autores.
Finalmente e actualmente, decorre uma exposição de John Akomfrah, em Portugal, no CCB. A não perder!
José


Your hand is heavy, Night, upon my brow.
I bear no heart mercuric like the clouds,
to dare.
Exacerbation from your subtle plough.
Woman as a clam, on the sea's crescent.
I saw your jealous eye quench the sea's
Fluorescence, dance on the pulse incessant
Of the waves. And I stood, drained
Submitting like the sands, blood and brine
Coursing to the roots. Night, you rained
Serrated shadows through dank leaves
Till, bathed in warm suffusion of your dappled cells
Sensations pained me, faceless, silent as night thieves.
Hide me now, when night children haunt the earth
I must hear none! These misted cells will yet
Undo me; naked, unbidden, at Night's muted birth.

Wole Soyinka(1934-)