Josèfa Ntjam (1992, Metz) develops a cross-sectorial practice combining video, writing, installation, photo- montage, and sculpture. Interested in notions of spec- ulation regarding space, in recent years she has developed a body of fictional work concerning potential worlds—“futuribles”. She also presents performative readings, with the intention of embodying the writing and deploying its modes of enunciation.

For her first major solo exhibition in France, Josèfa Ntjam has devised an immersive exhibition that will focus on the notions of dissident networks that are often hidden and encrypted, and the force required to mobilise them. There will be talk of the maquis, the revolutionary biotope woven into a mass of plant cells observed under a microscope, but also of mythological figures, who are often metaphors for past struggles and those yet to come—struggles that are always—already looming. Among these presences we will find both revolutionary figures such as Marthe Moumié, Ernest Ouandié, Ruben Um Nyobe, Sankara, Toni Morrison, Sun Ra, and Henrietta Lacks, but also mythological divinities and chimera with powers as ancestral as they are prospec- tive: Mami Wata, Amma & Nommo, Hilolombi... In other words, it is a matter here of weaving new bonds between (our) various revolutionary struggles, human and non-human, to understand their affinities—political, social, historical, philosophical, poetic, and “poietical”.