A.Y. Johnson

Itumọ

Photography
2023
Itumọ = translation

“This series looks to translate the contradicting experiences I encounter as I navigate my Yoruba heritage in a western environment. I explore the idea of a “connected disconnection”, where I fill the gaps of culturally distinctive knowledge with assumptions, presumptions, what I may have heard, etc through the lens of a contemporary mindset, to build a bridge of connection. This estranged and imbalanced relationship is what I aim to contemplate through visual representation. And these ideas of misinformation, unfinished storylines and detachment are reimagined in the photographs.”

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2023, GradEx108
OCAD University

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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.”