Bonsai: Behind Abiola Moshood’s Visual Treatise on Portraiture, Culture and Place

Abiola Badmus Moshood’s photograph, Bonsai, is a quintessential example of conceptual portraiture. In the photograph, Moshood, working through his visual practice Mux Imagery, exalts Nubian skin while staging a subtle psychosocial commentary on the Black woman and, more broadly, on Blackness