TAYO ADEKUNLE
Cluster Residency Shortlisted Artist | Cluster Photography | 2021
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Since graduating from Edinburgh College of Art
with a BA (Hons) in Photography,
she has been a recipient of the SSA New Graduate Award and the Degree Show Purchase Prize, resulting in her work becoming part of The University of Edinburgh Art Collection.
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Her work is centred around reworkings of historical tropes relating to the black female body,
taking from contexts that include art historical paintings and sculptures as well as 19th century colonial photography.
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By placing historical imagery in a contemporary context, the relationship between the treatment
of the black female body in the past and its treatment in the present day is explored.
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Tayo Adekunle is a
British Nigerian photographer based
in Edinburgh.
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Working a lot with self-portraiture, she uses her work to explore issues surrounding race, gender
and sexuality as well as racial and colonial history.
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She works to subvert established notions about black female sexuality
and the standard of beauty ascribed to black females.
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