Ghana-born British artist John Akomfrah sits down with SFMOMA Curator of Media Arts Rudolf Frieling to discuss the intersections of race, history, and the evocative power of Romanticism in Akomfrah’s three-channel video installation Vertigo Sea (2015).
Header image: John Akomfrah, Vertigo Sea, 2015 (detail); © Smoking Dogs Films; courtesy Lisson Gallery