Lamin Fofana
Lamin Fofana is an artist and musician currently located in Berlin. His music contrasts the reality of our world with what’s beyond, and explores questions of movement, migration, alienation and belonging. Fofana’s overlapping interests in history and the present, and his practice of transmuting text into the affective medium of sound, manifests in multisensory live performances and installations featuring original music compositions, field recordings and archival material. His latest releases include Black Metamorphosis, Darkwater, and Blues (an album trilogy). Recent exhibitions include BLUES at Mishkin Gallery at Baruch College, City University of New York (2020); Refracted Gazes/Fugitive Dreams at Akademie Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart, Germany (2019); WITNESS at 57th Venice Biennale, Italy (2017); and performances at Documenta 14, Kassel, Germany and Athens, Greece (2017). Fofana hosts a monthly radio show focusing on black music and Afrodiasporic traditions on NTS Radio, an online station based in London. In 2021 Fofana was awarded a Foundation for Contemporary Arts Grants to Artists.
