Real Art Ways presents a solo exhibition by Real Art Award winner Sophia-Yemisi Adeyemo.

Sophia-Yemisi Adeyemo (b. 1999 in Burlingame, CA) is an interdisciplinary artist creating liberatory visions. Both historical liberation struggles and current resistance movements are central to how Adeyemo constructs the scenes in her work. At the intersection of assemblage, painting, and sculpture, Adeyemo pulls from the visual sensibilities of graffiti, protest art, Cuban solidarity posters, hand-drawn shop signs, and sensibilities (so-called “naive” art) as a means of contributing to a lineage of opposition. Adeyemo’s work includes a trash foraging practice, where she collects found and discarded objects from the street. She considers them to be “rejected by-products of a capitalist use-value structure,” and regards them animistically. They exist not only as found objects, but as fragments of experience, which she works with rather than on.