Josèfa Ntjam's Afrofuturist Visions Span Sculpture, Film, and Photomontage

Born in 1992 in Metz, France, Josèfa Ntjam is an artist residing in Saint-Étienne, whose creative repertoire spans sculpture, photomontage, film, and sound. She earned her degree in political theory from Cheikh Anta Diop University and completed her studies at ENSA Bourges and ENSAPC, Cergy, in 2017. In 2024, she presented a solo exhibition titled Une cosmogonie d’océans at LVMH Métiers d’Art in Paris, showcasing sculptures influenced by Central and West African mythology. Another solo exhibition, Futuristic Ancestry Warping Matter and Space-time(s), took place at Fotografiska New York, featuring multisensory works inspired by Battlestar Galactica and Octavia E. Butler. For the Venice Biennale, she produced a film that merges animation with myth. Ntjam prefers not to label her work as Afrofuturism, considering it a research methodology.