Adama Delphine Fawundu, For Mama Adama series, 2020
Adama Delphine Fawundu, For Mama Adama series, 2020
I am heavily influenced by my Grandma Adama's batiking textile business in Pujehun, Sierra Leone primarily. Throughout my life I've been connected to her through these vibrantly dyed cotton textiles. I find myself in conversation with her spirit as I bring her fabrics into my works through scanning and layering practices. With this new series, For Mama Adama, I use cyanotypes, and various printing methods on Guinea brocade cotton textiles. I found myself making new patterns, some from imagination while others are reinterpretations of Mama Adama's originals.
Adama Delphine Fawundu is photo-based visual artist born in Brooklyn, NY to parents from Sierra Leone and Equatorial Guinea, West Africa. She received her MFA from Columbia University. Fawundu is a co-author/editor of the critically acclaimed book MFON: Women Photographers of the African Diaspora. This book features more than 100 women photographers of African descent from around the globe. Her most recent works investigate indigenous ontologies while imagining new ways of being in the world. Her interests included decolonization, memory, and interrogating histories. Fawundu uses photography, video, sculpture, and printmaking to create new transnational identities as she explores Afrofuturist ideas.