Josèfa Ntjam is born in Metz, 1992. She lives and works in Saint-Étienne (France)

Josèfa Ntjam is a multidisciplinary artist whose practice combines sculpture, photomontage, performance, film and writing. Gleaning the raw material for her works from the internet and works of natural science, Ntjam uses collage – of images, words, sounds and stories – as the chief vehicle of a practice that aims to deconstruct the grand narratives underlying hegemonic accounts of origin, identity and history. Her work often takes the form of scrupulous investigations of historical events, philosophical concepts or the functions of science, which she will accompany with references to mythology, ancestral ritual, religious symbolism or science fiction. These heterogenous elements are marshalled together in an effort to reappropriate history, which Ntjam confronts with narrative constructions that explore space-times to come, worlds between worlds where the systems of perception and naming of fixed (id)entities no longer operate. Politics and poetics thus meld together in utopian spaces and ontological fictions, a process intended to contribute to the development of a practice of emancipation that involves the emergence of multiple, processual and resilient communities.