Adesola Yusuf

Silenced3 (tethered), 2021

Digital Collage

5100 x 7200 pixels

Courtesy of Gazelli Art House Ltd.

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About The Artwork

Even though we buy chains, we just wanna be free.
-Tierra Whack

I'm thinking of how we got here, how any young boy and or girl doing well for their selves are profiled as criminals. why?


Why does a country with a high population of young people hate when young people express themselves, why are we taken to jail & prison cells for simple things like wearing chains?

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.

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