An interview by
, curator and curator
Onyinye Alheri
Thank you for offering me a platform to explain my practice and its motivations. Firstly, just to correct one thing: I did not actually receive any formal art training, aside from a few classes taken here and there. However, I can say without a doubt that the experience of growing up as both a racial minority and an immigrant in the United States has influenced my perspective as an artist, though it is only one aspect of my practice. Specifically the notion of liminality, of existing in between multiple worlds( be they physical, cultural or imagined) is one that I am constantly exploring.
Whether I want it to be this way or not, my status as a“ foreigner” in this country will always be evident in my body and my name. I recognize the place that identity
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