ARTIST STATEMENT
At some point, when I was young, the adults in my family decided I was a “story teller,” who couldn’t be trusted to recite the script they demanded I perform as a black, female child. Decades later, as an adult and an artist, I am still telling my stories through interdisciplinary works that depict quiet scenes and commonplace rituals. With incorporation of texture, personal items, discarded materials, and digital manipulation, my work invites viewers to question the stories they were told, the names they were called, the roles they performed and why. Stories I return to often are grief and motherhood, the corporate destruction of our ecosystem, the luminosity of women, and the heavy weight of my own childhood traumas.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Bosede A. Opetubo makes art as a practice of self-love for her adult and childhood selves. She only recently stepped into her identity as an artist after the birth of her son in 2021. Since then, her work has been commissioned as public art and exhibited across Massachusetts and New York, including selections from “Wallpaper,” which confronts the maddening experience of pregnancy under capitalism. Bosede is also the founder of SAHMCreative, which hosts live, virtual and recorded artmaking experiences for mothers and other caregivers.
© Bosede A. Opetubo