Tayo Adekunle
United Kingdom
Exhibiting MMG Emerging Art Prize Artist: Tayo Adekunle
Tayo Adekunle is presenting Yemoja, 2021. This photographic self portrait shows Adekunle embodying Orisha. She is represented amongst symbols of the Triangular Trade as a way of negotiating inherited pain. Adekunle explores themes of race, gender and sexuality as well as racial and colonial histories.