Last Born (Deconstructed), 2021
Digital Collage
5400 × 7200 px
Courtesy of Gazelli Art House Ltd.
Copyright The Artist
About The Artwork
Last born as I remember it.
Deconstructed study of my digital piece the last born; I'm exploring how memory works & how it's inevitable to remember a subject without remembering other faint details of the event surrounding the subject in concern, for example, any time I recall the day I printed the sample for this piece I remember how I stopped by the roadside to get some old comics from a street vendor although this happened on different months; I remember them as a single entity, mostly because I purchased the comic on the same road that leads to the print house, this is how I feel memory works it begins to contract till you end up forgetting or it just turns foggy & jumbled up.
About Adesola Yusuf
Abdulrahman Adesola Yusuf (Arclight) born in 1997 is a multi-media artist from Lagos, Nigeria. Adesola graduated from Yaba College of Technology with a HND in Graphic design (2018).
The visual expressive form of his works takes inspiration from art of the High renaissance, the Baroque and Rococo. His colour palette is largely inspired by the vibrancy of Pop art and Post-internet art. He would describe his work as a visual soliloquy, detailed with vibrant and contrasting colours. He attempts to give the viewer an insight into his anecdotes that focus on his interaction with his immediate environment, particularly in Lagos. He uses art as a medium to archive the experience of one's own individuality and also the effect of sociopolitical issues in his daily life and that of the people around him.