A choice of work by Philadelphia-based artist Zeinab Diomande. Utilizing mixed-media, high-contrast colors and vibrating patterns, Diomande’s work discover themes associated to her personal private expertise in addition to the Black expertise at massive by means of dream-like settings and the language of self-portraiture. For Diomande, the Black expertise is ever-changing and ever-evolving, and her work is an try to replicate that actuality:
“The backgrounds in my work are typically in movement whereas the determine continues to be. It is a sample that I’ve had for some time in my work. What does it imply to really feel caught when every thing round you goes at such a quick tempo and continually altering? The determine being nonetheless, represents this concept of going at one’s personal tempo however realizing that every thing round them goes sooner. It’s a tough realization and one thing that I battle with in my day by day life. The immobile determine evokes uncertainty whereas every thing else surrounding them retains going. You can’t struggle time or go in opposition to it, it is going to at all times find yourself going at a sooner tempo.”
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