Yewande Okuleye is an artist who interrogates gaps in knowledge systems through her work, seeking to excavate tensions and contradictions. She uses digital photography, drawing, and text to plant visual ideas that blur boundaries between real, constructed, and imaginary. Her mixed media approach aims to fuse visible and invisible aspects of different processes, embedding cognitive, physical, and temporal qualities of image making to challenge prevalent constructed dichotomies.

1. Artist Statement
Yewande Okuleye

2. • My work as an Artist is situated within the
framework of interrogating the gaps within
the knowledge systems of language, history
and science.

3. • Within this context, my art seeks to
excavate tensions, contradictions and
conflicts.
• My intention as an artist is to plant the seed
of a visual idea; a playful tease with the
real, the constructed and the imaginary.

4. • What happens when these boundaries
intersect and blur?
• What does this new knowledge suggest?
• How does it challenge the prevalent
constructed dichotomies?

5. • Digital photography, drawing, and text are
the preferred investigative tools in my
image making strategy.
• This mixed media approach enables a
dialogue between the different media to
ensue.

6. • I am looking for a spontaneous fusion
between the visible and invisible aspects of
the materiality of different processes.
• This process allows the work to embed the
cognitive, kinaesthetic & temporal qualities
of image making.