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Faculty of Art

Drawing and Painting

A.Y. Johnson

And the escape?

Sculpture
2021
Mixed Media on drywall
1.5ft X 3ft
Mixed media sculpture and installation work

“An installation that plays with the idea of self- entitled representation, and the inability to escape from the shame that is prevalent on my journey of realization as a Yoruba woman.”

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And the escape?
And the escape?
And the escape?
And the escape?
And the escape?
And the escape?
And the escape?
And the escape?

Work by

A.Y. Johnson

Interdisciplinary

“I aim forefront the dialougue on afro-centric queries, the ideas of beauty and strength, the contradictions of female cultural identity, and by extension colonialism, race, spirituality and more.”

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