Alexander Ikhide

Alexander Ikhide is a multidisciplinary visual artist who explores questions of representation, identity, history, sexuality, gender, and race using collage (analogue/digital), drawing/painting, and photography.

Dissecting and re-examining notions of black masculinity and masculine performance subjectively, as well as engaging with an art historical context of various queer practitioners who also explore the discourse of gender, race, and sexuality in their practice, with a focus on black male identity in relation to queerness. Understanding that the personal and political are inextricably linked and interchangeable acts as a point of departure and arrival from which his ideas emerge and are explored extensively in his practice.

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