Seyi Adelekun is an interdisciplinary artist of Yoruba-Nigerian heritage. Their practice combines installation, performance, and sound as storytelling devices to archive and disseminate indigenous knowledge and ecological wisdom. Seyi’s work explores the role of spirituality within environmental social justice, using regenerative design principles to world-build alternative realities that supports collective liberation. Rooted in somatics, their workshops integrate ritual, craft, embodied movement and ancestral nature based practices to foster interconnectedness, healing and play within community.
Seyi has exhibited at South London Gallery, London Festival of Architecture, KLA ART Festival, Forest of Dean Sculpture Trail, and London Design Festival. They have completed residencies at G.A.S. Foundation, Iniva / Stuart Hall Library, and 32 Degrees East. As well as facilitated workshops for the Barbican Centre and produced projects with Assemble Studio and Artangel on Steve McQueen’s Year 3.