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Sophia-Yemisi Adeyemo: Common Property: Sun Washed Waste of The West at Real Artways
August 17 @ 2:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Aug 15 – Sep 23, 2024
Hours:
Sunday-Saturday
2 – 9PM
Sophia-Yemisi Adeyemo (b. 1999 in Burlingame, CA) is an interdisciplinary artist creating liberatory visions. Both historical liberation struggles and current resistance movements are central to how Adeyemo constructs the scenes in her work. At the intersection of assemblage, painting, and sculpture, Adeyemo pulls from the visual sensibilities of graffiti, protest art, Cuban solidarity posters, hand-drawn shop signs, and non-canonized African-diasporic storytelling sensibilities (so-called “naive” art) as a means of contributing to a lineage of opposition. Adeyemo’s work includes a trash foraging practice, where she collects found and discarded objects from the street. She considers them to be “rejected by-products of a capitalist use-value structure,” and regards them animistically. They exist not only as found objects, but as fragments of experience, which she works with rather than on.
