Destinie Adélakun
Destinie Adélakun is an award-winning contemporary artist who expresses herself through photography, painting, filmmaking, and sculpting. Raised by her grandmother in Indian to Nigerian and Indian parents, Adélakun has an interesting perspective on the world as seen through her art which has been exhibited in Toronto, Brooklyn, North Carolina, and now at Union Station.
“,,,for this project I worked with various different artisans in Toronto. This work is actually photographed at the Toronto History Museum at the Spadina House. That’s why it has such a European backdrop. Because this work is also about reclamation, and is thinking about if our ancestors came here as free people, what would that reclamation look like? What would our presence in this world be like?” Destinie Adélakun, interview with SHIFTER.
So what’s next for Adélakun? After serving as artist in residence at the City of Toronto Cultural Arts Office, Toronto, Canada, and Nike Arts Gallery in Lagos, Nigeria, she is also the artist in residence at the Andrew Freedman House in the Bronx, New York.
