Associate Professor Ayanah Moor Interviews Folayemi Wilson for BOMB Magazine

A wooden cabin stands outside in front of a gathering of trees. Inside the cabin one can see a large picture of a wooden cabin in a field of grass and trees.

Eliza’s Peculiar Cabinet of Curiosities (2016), Folayemi Wilson. Lynden Sculpture Garden, Milwaukee. Image courtesy of BOMB Magazine.

Eliza’s Peculiar Cabinet of Curiosities (2016), Folayemi Wilson. Lynden Sculpture Garden, Milwaukee. Image courtesy of BOMB Magazine.

For BOMB Magazine’s latest edition of their Oral History Project (OHP), Associate Professor Ayanah Moor interviewed visual artist and academic Folayemi Wilson. Every year, BOMB’s OHP publishes in-depth interviews with artists across the African diaspora. In this year’s edition, Moor sat down with Wilson to discuss her various works, such as her architectural project Eliza's Peculiar Cabinet of Curiosities, the Africanist and Afrofuturist frameworks that guide her artistic approach, and the value of Black imagination. 

“Ayanah Moor, also a multi-hyphenated conceptual artist and academic, is a skillful interviewer and guide,” Janée Moses, theOHP managing editor, wrote in the interview’s introduction. “Their approach as interviewer is grounded in a dialogic methodology in which both artists share equally in an effort to unravel the layers of their chosen styles in the contemporary art world.”

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