Bosede’s art practice began with the conception of her now four-year-old son, when the impending responsibility of shaping a new life compelled her to become radically awake in her own.
Sustained by deep meditation rituals set to an Afrofuturistic soundtrack, her process is centered on personal excavation and examining the generational and societal inheritances she will pass on or leave behind. Her visual art incorporates portraiture, personal effects, and the nostalgic materials of childhood into drawings, photographs and assemblages that (re)present the grief and ecstasy of choosing to live, what to remember, how to forget, and for whom we dream.
Embodying her belief that artmaking is a universal skill, a threshold to emotional liberation, and a multidimensional tool for embodying alternate realities, Bosede’s started SAHMCreative, through which she facilitates public collaborative artmaking experiences to help empathetic people (re)connect with themselves, and each other, through creative play. SAHMCreative has led artmaking experiences with partners like Google, Tufts University, and the Boston Public Health Commission.
Bosede Ajibola Opetubo is a Black (Nigerian-)American, a queer woman, a mother, and a Bronx-born lifelong New Yorker.