Ayomide Tejuoso
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Ayomide Tejuoso (Plantation) is a Nigerian British artist based across London, Geneva, and Lagos. Working across text, photography, video, and installation art, her creative practice is an expansion of the black disposition. She employs research and literary production to affirm the complexities of black womanhood, and ideate visual worlds grounded in the diasporic experience. To her writing is linguistic revolution, and image making is black art as praxis. In all, her creative production is the recording of black conditions and salvations. Taking photographs of blushed cheeks, hidden alcoves, dashing horses, and swollen braids, her work references the legacies of Deana Lawson, Arthur Jafa, and Khalil Joseph. She is fascinated by their sacred experimentations of African American cultural, sonic, and visual modulations, and seeks to re-imagine this within Nigerian and diasporic dialects. Following this, her work has been exhibited in prestigious institutions across Europe and West Africa, including La Rada Gallery, Krakow Photomonth Festival, Motormond Gallery, Gallery 1957, Photo Vogue Festival, Foam Amsterdam, OSCAM Museum, and Rele Gallery.


Commercially, Ayomide Tejuoso (Plantation) works as a writer, editorial photographer, and creative director. She has contributed essays, photography projects, and visual campaigns across TWIST Magazine, New Currency Magazine, Nataal Media, PhotoVogue, Mulieris magazine, British Journal of Photography, and Foam Talent. Furthermore, she collaborates with Sandra Brutus Labiche, to develop MINA, a visual folklore and anthology of a black woman who emerges from a black house on a mountain in Vevey, Switzerland. Lastly, She is developing 00IDEATION, a research laboratory fascinated by colonial and philosophical notions of artistic production as the creation of peculiarity. It seeks to expand this disposition through black diasporic aesthetic and cultural practice.

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