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Ayo’s work consists of extensive research projects that shapeshift into film, sculpture and performance. The artist’s practice is based on a desire to seek out counter narratives, and to explore both pleasurable as well as uncomfortable ways of re-telling histories. Sources of inspiration sprout from archival materials, oral histories, intangible forms of cultural heritage and obscure feelings of displacement within the contemporary African Diaspora.

Background
Ayo is a Ugandan artist, researcher and filmmaker currently based in The Netherlands. Ayo holds an MA in Fine Art from the Piet Zwart Institute, Rotterdam. In 2020 she was awarded the Willem De Kooning Master Research Award, and in 2021 she was nominated for the Guido Huysmans Young African Filmmaker Award. Recent exhibitions and film screenings include Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin, Singing Off Key (solo) at Singular Art Gallery, Nijmegen, Material Context at Het Archief, Rotterdam, and Possessed at the European Media Art Festival, Osnabrück, Germany.


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Unfair Amsterdam - Pregnant clouds pissing rain_open studios_pzi_2019

Ayo – Pregnant Clouds Pissing Rain (2019)

Available works by Ayo

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Cours Belsunce (2021)

Unfair Amsterdam - Cours belsunce_ateliers portes ouvertes_
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Odero & The weeping totem (2021)

Unfair Amsterdam - Odero & the weeping totem, material context_photo_by_nickthomas
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Modern Day Griots & tapped train conversations (2020)

Unfair Amsterdam - Modern day griots_exhibition _ expoplu art center_2020
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Pregnant Clouds Pissing Rain (2019)

Unfair Amsterdam - Pregnant clouds pissing rain_open studios_pzi_2019
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Abjects IV (2020)

Unfair Amsterdam - Abjects_i_sculpture_life gallery_photo_by_lili huston heterich_2020 .jpeg

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