Adeola Dewis

  • Adeola  Dewis
© Adeola Dewis
Painter, Actor, Illustrator
Principal country concerned : Column : Theater, Fine arts

I am investigating ways of integrating painting and movement through video and live art, allowing the real to become less real. Coming from a tradition of Carnival street art that is about allowing the body to become paint(ed) my body becomes not a surface to be marked on but a mark itself. The Trinidad Carnival has a massive influence on my art-making process. As with the Trinidad Blue Devils, my work allows for a transformation through the mask of paint, exploring a new visibility that is about the marking of black lines, making the first mark of visibility in an attempt to re-present self in a new space.

Partners

  • Arterial network
  • Media, Sports and Entertainment Group (MSE)
  • Gens de la Caraïbe
  • Groupe 30 Afrique
  • Alliance Française VANUATU
  • PACIFIC ARTS ALLIANCE
  • FURTHER ARTS
  • Zimbabwe : Culture Fund Of Zimbabwe Trust
  • RDC : Groupe TACCEMS
  • Rwanda : Positive Production
  • Togo : Kadam Kadam
  • Niger : ONG Culture Art Humanité
  • Collectif 2004 Images
  • Africultures Burkina-Faso
  • Bénincultures / Editions Plurielles
  • Africiné
  • Afrilivres

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