A Place for Us

Temple Contemporary

Tyler School of Art and Architecture, Temple University
Philadelphia, PA

A Place for Us, was my culminating thesis exhibition at the Tyler School of Art and Architecture, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA (2021).

Both intimate and monumental, A Place for Us, was an installation that was born out of an ongoing need to define the fluid space of living in between worlds and cultures—interpreted through the lens of resilient Yoruba spiritual practices that have been handed down to me by my mother and grandmother.

To exist in the space in between, aqui y allá, cannot be defined—if it can be defined at all—by a singular mode of production. I turn to a variety of materials and processes. This includes found and discarded objects, organic matter (like sugar); to conjure histories and transmute them into something new altogether through drawing, painting, photography, installation and sculpture. A Place for Us is a space where we can recall our personal pasts and challenge collective memory.