Josèfa Ntjam is an artist, performer and writer whose practice combines sculpture, photomontage, moving image and sound. Collecting the raw material of her work from the internet, books on natural sciences and photographic archives, Ntjam uses assemblage — of images, words, sounds and stories — as a method to deconstruct the grand narratives underlying hegemonic discourses on origin, identity and race. Her work weaves multiple narratives drawn from investigations into historical events, scientific processes and philosophical concepts, to which she confronts references to African mythology, ancestral rituals, religious symbolism and science fiction.

Ntjam studied in Amiens, France and Dakar, Senegal (Cheikh Anta Diop University), and graduated from the École nationale supérieure d’art, Bourges (2015) and the École nationale supérieure d’art, Paris-Cergy (2017). Solo exhibitions include matter gone wild, Fondation d’entreprise Pernod Ricard, Paris (2023–24); Limestone Memories – Un Maquis sous les Étoiles, NıCOLETTı, London (2023); When the Moon Dreamed of the Ocean, FACT Liverpool (2022–23); Underground Resistance – Living Memories, The Photographers’ Gallery, London (2022); and we’ll kill them with love, CAC La Traverse, Alfortville (2022); Molecular Genealogies, NıCOLETTı, London (2021) and Allegoria, duo show with Kaeto Sweeney, Hordaland Art Center, Bergen (2019). She has performed at Forma, London (2023); Lafayette Anticipations, Paris (2023); Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam (2022); LUMA Arles; (2022); Palais de Tokyo, Paris (2020) and Centre Pompidou, Paris (2020) among others.

Ntjam is currently a resident at LVMH Métiers d’Arts, Paris. She lives and works in Saint-Étienne, France.