Abiku, nascido para morrer

A fotografia de Rotimi Fani-Kayode

Authors

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.14393/OUV-v17n1a2021-51481

Keywords:

Rotimi Fani-Kayode, Photography, Necropolitics, diaspora art, Aids

Abstract

The black and homosexual body portraits presented in the photographic artwork of Nigerian artist Rotimi Fani-Kayode, whose Aids related death occurred in the pandemic early years, are a falling record of evanescence and ecstatic, and a solid intersection between the biopolitical and necropolitical crossed concepts of lives and populations use and consumption, opening worthy crossroads to sex and death, which emulates a very specific meeting point for diaspora and fatality; and triangulates blackness, homosexuality and disease, as well as identity, politics, and Yoruba spirituality.

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Author Biography

José Roberto Schneedorf Ferreira da Silva, Universidade do Estado de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte MG, Brasil

Born in São Bernardo do Campo, Brazil, 1973. Plastic artist, researcher and Engraving college professor at Universidade do Estado de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Brazil. Currently Doctoral student in Arts; with Master in Visual Arts (2009) and Bachelor in fine Arts (Drawing, 1994; and Engraving, 1996). producing mostly drawing and engraved art pieces, and exhibiting those in art spaces since 1994. Lives and works in Belo Horizonte, Brazil.

INSTITUTIONAL MEMBERSHIP: Professor at Three-dimensional disciplines and visual arts Departament (DDTAV) in Escola Guignard, Universidade do Estado de Minas Gerais. Doctoral student at Arts Postgraduate Program (PPGA) in Escola de Belas Artes, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais.

Published

2021-09-25

How to Cite

SCHNEEDORF FERREIRA DA SILVA, J. R. Abiku, nascido para morrer: A fotografia de Rotimi Fani-Kayode. ouvirOUver, [S. l.], v. 17, n. 1, p. 67–83, 2021. DOI: 10.14393/OUV-v17n1a2021-51481. Disponível em: https://seer.ufu.br/index.php/ouvirouver/article/view/51481. Acesso em: 19 dec. 2024.