Lynette Yiadom-Boakye // Switcher, 2013
59 × 55 inches, oil on canvas
People are tempted to politicize the fact that I paint Black figures, and the complexity of this is an essential part of the work. But my starting point is always the language of painting itself and how that relates to the subject matter… Also, they’re all Black because… I’m not white.
Lynette Yiadom-Boakye, interview with Hans Ulrich Obrist, Kaleidoscope.
love.