Adama Delphine Fawundu: Water Rituals (2017-2018)
About:
Adama Delphine Fawundu seeks to explore the manifestations of post-colonial and post-Trans Atlantic Slave Trade identities. Her recent project Deconstructing She confronts these social constructs of identity. She uses herself as the subject to address the conflicts of stereotypes and prejudice.
Delphine Fawundu is a New York City based multi-media visual artist whose work examines the theory of social constructivism within the development of identity. With this concept in mind, her art investigates the impact of the Transatlantic Slave Trade and Colonialism on social constructs including race, gender and class. Her art appropriates representations of Blackness and African ethnicities while disrupting stagnant ideas about these identities. It queries the fine line between intrinsic identities and the identities evolved from social, political and nationalistic influences.(© the artist)