Artist Statement

Yewande Okuleye

• My work as an Artist is situated within the framework of interrogating the gaps within the knowledge systems of language, history and science.

• Within this context, my art seeks to excavate tensions, contradictions and conflicts.

• My intention as an artist is to plant the seed of a visual idea; a playful tease with the real, the constructed and the imaginary.

• What happens when these boundaries intersect and blur?

• What does this new knowledge suggest?

• How does it challenge the prevalent constructed dichotomies?

 

• Digital photography, drawing, and text are the preferred investigative tools in my image making strategy.

• This mixed media approach enables a dialogue between the different media to ensue.

• I am looking for a spontaneous fusion between the visible and invisible aspects of the materiality of different processes.

• This process allows the work to embed the cognitive, kinaesthetic & temporal qualities of image making.