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Adama Delphine Fawundu is a photographer born in Brooklyn, NY to parents from Sierra Leone and Equatorial Guinea, West Africa. Fawundu co-published the critically acclaimed book, MFON: Women Photographers of the African Diaspora. For decades, she has exhibited both nationally and internationally. Fawundu is a 2022 Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition finalist, her recent awards also include, The Anonymous Was A Women Grant; New York Foundation for The Arts Photography Fellowship; and the Rema Hort Mann Artist Fellowship.
Adama Delphine Fawundu's artistic practice is rooted in African centered ontologies which challenge constructed social hierarchies based on race, gender and class. She uses photography and mixed media to weave together themes such as memory, mythology, decolonization and stories of the past, present and future while activating the radical imaginary. Her diverse West African heritage (Mende, Krim, Bubi, Bamileke) and lineage within the Black Atlas serves as inspiration for global research. She travels to various significant locations around the globe, while thinking of the stories connected to these spaces and conversations with their deeply rooted histories within the African continent. Fawundu's body is the focus in most of her works; performance and meditation are part of her process. She is a shapeshifter. In the Sacred Star of Isis, her body witnesses and sometimes becomes the archive. Including fabrics hand dyed by her Mende Grandma, a song sheet from the Jim Crow South, Africans communing in Congo Square, New Orleans in the 1700's and a portrait of Queen Nzinga Mbande framed with cotton from South Carolina and stitched with hair, this mixed media photographic piece is poetic. Inspired by water goddesses, Fawundu embodies a Water Seer at the historic Ussher Fort in Jamestown, Ghana and Mami Wata at the shore of Guanahani (the Lucayan name for the Bahamas). "My body is symbolic of a specific and universal being, one that thrives on radical love," says Fawundu.
Adama Delphine Fawundu's artistic practice is rooted in African centered ontologies which challenge constructed social hierarchies based on race, gender and class. She uses photography and mixed media to weave together themes such as memory, mythology, decolonization and stories of the past, present and future while activating the radical imaginary. Her diverse West African heritage (Mende, Krim, Bubi, Bamileke) and lineage within the Black Atlas serves as inspiration for global research. She travels to various significant locations around the globe, while thinking of the stories connected to these spaces and conversations with their deeply rooted histories within the African continent. Fawundu's body is the focus in most of her works; performance and meditation are part of her process. She is a shapeshifter. In the Sacred Star of Isis, her body witnesses and sometimes becomes the archive. Including fabrics hand dyed by her Mende Grandma, a song sheet from the Jim Crow South, Africans communing in Congo Square, New Orleans in the 1700's and a portrait of Queen Nzinga Mbande framed with cotton from South Carolina and stitched with hair, this mixed media photographic piece is poetic. Inspired by water goddesses, Fawundu embodies a Water Seer at the historic Ussher Fort in Jamestown, Ghana and Mami Wata at the shore of Guanahani (the Lucayan name for the Bahamas). "My body is symbolic of a specific and universal being, one that thrives on radical love," says Fawundu.
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Lot 9
Sale 21443
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Sea Whispers for Mami Wata at the shore of Guanahani, 2020
ADAMA DELPHINE FAWUNDU (B. 1971)
Estimate: USD 4,000 - 6,000
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