Bloodflowers: Rotimi Fani-Kayode, Photography, and the 1980s Bourland W. Ian
Bloodflowers: Rotimi Fani-Kayode, Photography, and the 1980s Bourland W. Ian In Bloodflowers W. Born in Nigeria, Fani-Kayode moved between artistic and cultural worlds in Washington, D.C., New York,…
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Bloodflowers: Rotimi Fani-Kayode, Photography, and the 1980s Bourland W. Ian
In Bloodflowers W. Born in Nigeria, Fani-Kayode moved between artistic and cultural worlds in Washington, D.C., New York, and London, where he produced the bulk of his provocative and often surrealist and homoerotic photographs of black men. Ian Bourland examines the photography of Rotimi Fani-Kayode (1955-1989), whose art is a touchstone for cultural debates surrounding questions of gender and queerness, race and diaspora, aesthetics and politics, and the enduring legacy of slavery and colonialism.
In addition to his formal analyses of Fani-Kayode's portraiture, Bourland outlines the important influence that surrealism, neo-Romanticism, Yoruban religion, the AIDS crisis, experimental film, loft culture, and house and Bourland situates Fani-Kayode's work in a time of global transition and traces how it exemplified and responded to profound social, cultural, and political change.