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Okiki Akinfe

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Okikioluwa Akinfe, (born 1999) is London based painter. Her practice centres on creating an alternative to the conventional archive, encompassing 'The Black Lens', a subversive tool towards avoiding stereotypes by demonstrating their absurdity. Authenticity that involves the othered experience, refocusing the position of the White Gaze to a Black Gaze. The figures within the paintings are visible and un-visible, investigating placing and un-placing ghostly Black figures in landscapes, within their own realities, on their own terms. A space in world building for these figures to exist in a non-social geographical space, paused in their own time agency, resting, in perseverance of time.

Degree Details

School of Arts & Humanities

Painting (MA) 1YR