About

Tunmi Da Silva is a Nigerian-American artist based in Los Angeles, CA.

Artist Statement

I’m interested in cultural dispossession, the language of materiality, and the ways in which diasporic people preserve and adapt ancestral traditions to new lands, as such is the case with basket weaving and amulet-making in my work. Taking inspiration from my natural environment, atmospheric conditions and surface tensions lack distinction. I’m also inspired by an analogous, inextricable relationship between human skin and bodies of water. When the work is in the water, I try to maintain an aerial, sometimes galactic, perspective on submersion.