Mudi Yahaya

Mallam Mudi Yahaya is a visual artist whose work explores interpretations of African hybrid identities and their varied visual dialects, currencies and vocabularies. With the massive digitization of media data, Mudi investigates aesthetics that connects postcolonial, post global African identities mediated by still photography and cinema linked with politics, philosophy, history, time, religion, power, violence, intolerance, gender and race matters. Mudis' work further focuses on the relationship and tension between images as they interact with notions and strategies of post-colonial deconstruction and decolonization of the African identity in syncretic African spaces and non-spaces. Mudi's interests in identity extends to photography archives where he conceptually explores counter narratives of photographic construction and representation that delves into the relationship between the photo archive and the idea of a nation and national identity. His conceptual archival projects are conceived from the performativity and multimodality of photography archives, that presents archival photos as a visual resource that influences semiotic construction with socio cultural meaning.