![]() Beyond water, I often refer to plants, animals, and organic materials and substances found at a microscopic level – molecules, particles, etc. My work often refers to water as an element that evokes permanent transformation and movement, an ungraspable substance that has the ability to symbolically teach us humans how to become ungraspable ourselves, how to upset the processes of identification and assignation that dominant discourses attempt to implement to maintain power. I’m particularly interested in the political and utopian dimensions of seas and oceans, the receptacle of many stories of domination – slavery, colonization, capitalism, environmental crisis – but also the origin of an important number of myths and emancipatory stories in many cultures. Josèfa Ntjam: My interest in water developed from my research into fluidity and hidden memories. ![]() How did that interest develop and what can it tell us about humans? Contemporary And: From water to climate change, you engage with the non-anthropocentric in your practice. ![]()
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