Jul 1, 2018
My work is has always been about subverting the notion that there is a homogeneous gay gaze. Growing up the images of gay men, predominantly white, where problematic in mainstream and popular culture, images of black men were equally problematic, as black men were framed within a narrative of fear, threat, desire, fascination and as someone who identifies as both my work has always been not just about playing with and against these concept-poor notions of identity. The experiential and bodily experiences are key for me as someone who found the templates of what it meant to be gay, black, black and gay limiting. I am far more interested in the more nuanced dimensions of my otherness
Ajamu, interviewed by Rob Perrée for Africanah