Igi
Ayedun

Hello!

My name is Igi Ayedun and I am a brazilian self-taught multimedia artist based nowhere between Sao Paulo, Marrakech, Barcelona and Paris. I started my creative career at age 15 through independent publishing art projects, developing practices such as photography and image design for analog and digital platforms from Latin America and Europe.

Even developing some performance, audiovisual, illustration and art education projects such as the presentation of my vocal performance work during SP-Arte 2018 at the Bienal pavilion, the foundation of my ephemeral visual arts free school dedicated to low class young people from black and LGBTQI + Brazilian communities and the idealization of Sao Paulo's first off-biennial dissident art circuit, for the past four years I have concentrated my artistic practice around painting and sculpture in order to develop the decolonial essence of my artistic identity as a black latin american woman. Because of this, one of my principles of self-connection comes from the diasporic perspective, developing an incessant exercise in discovering ancient painting techniques from the African, Middle East, and Asian continents along the Indigo route. Thus, in a narrative opposed to Western academic tradition, currently I have spent my life learning from local Moroccan artisans and accidentally I became the first woman to work in a Berber tannery in the history of Marrakech. My work has also been exhibited at the Oficina Theater, birthplace of the tropicalist culture of the 70's from Caetano to Hélio Oiticica, Baró Gallery in São Paulo, and by the end of this call I'm on display with my first institutional solo in Spain at the Art and Technology Center Etopia, with an exhibition that dissects African/brazilian indigenous ancestry through painting and augmented reality. I believe in process and maturation that only time, nature and persistence can give us. Decolonize alert!