Photo Credit: Chloe Hamill
About
Tobi frequently uses herself as a model within her artworks to explore narratives of identity and self. Her term ‘shadow self’, refers to a version of herself that she imagines has continued living on in Nigeria even after she was physically divorced from my country of origin, she thinks of this version as her ‘Other’ and explores this subject in a bronze mask casted from her face bearing the same title.
The compositions for her figurative oil paintings are created by collaging and manipulating photography of Nigeria from family albums, and her own present-day photography to draw these two different worlds together and construct new narratives.
Tobi Alexandra Falade was born in Warri, Nigeria 1995, and moved to the UK aged 7. She is based in Liverpool and London.
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