Evan Ifekoya is an interdisciplinary artist whose practice mirrors their role as a spiritual practitioner, perceiving art as a platform for redistributing and renegotiating resources, challenging implicit rules and hierarchies in public and social spaces.
"My art practice is a manifestation of my desire to bring my dream space into reality. Since childhood, music has provided both an antidote and a soundtrack to my experience. Deeply concerned with belief and knowledge systems, I view the body as its own knowledge system. Through portraiture and spatial installations engaging multiple senses, I connect us to deeper aspects of awareness. By drawing on ancestral wisdom and the science of entrainment, I explore the reparative and meditative dimensions of sound.
Harnessing light and reflective surfaces, I explore the nuances of perception- what it means to perceive and be perceived. The architectural interventions I call portal units draw on ancestral technologies to offer a new lens of perception, one that accounts for a specifically queer, neurodivergent experience.
My work reflects a continual process of transformation, archiving, and self-exploration. It bridges the gap between the past and the present, ritual and reality and non-linear time - offering new ways to see, feel, and understand the world and our relationship to the natural environment. Through my art, I hope to foster a deeper sense of connection, belonging, and awareness, creating spaces where liberation and refuge are not just ideals but lived experiences."
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Photographed by Christa Holka, June 2023