Chukwudumebi Gabriel Amadi-Emina

Chukwudumebi Gabriel Amadi-Emina (Maryland, USA)

She Stands Above the Lies They Made, 2021

photography, digital collage, dybond metal

45 x 19 inches

She Stands Above the Lies They Made is a piece that was born from a conversation with a friend, Dom. She told me about her frustration with the lens through which she, a black woman, is portrayed. Not only in the eyes of men but in spaces they occupy, which in this case is the U.S. She said something particular that really struck me: “When I look at my reflection sometimes, I don’t see myself, but an illusion of the same likeness designed by someone else. All I know is this; it’s not my truth.”