“How does identity and the feeling of belonging to a community take form? How does one blend in a country being an immigrant?” are just some of the questions Boluwatife Oyediran asks in his intimate portraits of people from Africa living in the United States, depicted in shades of blue.
Himself caught in the in-betweenness of his native culture and the will to feel at home within American society …
Himself caught in the in-betweenness of his native culture and the will to feel at home within American society - as a student at the Rhode Island School of Design - the Nigerian painter is brought to visually translate this set of internal changes. The apparent blue bodies bathed in a luminescent halo are in …
