This painting belongs to a series of work in which Tyna Adebowale explores motherhood in her native Nigerian context.

Intrinsic in Adebowale’s work are ongoing processes of questioning andrepresentation of queer bodies, stories, and histories. The models in herpaintings are infused with raw emotion and defiance while exuding anunapologetic power in reclaimed intimacies and visibilities. Just like thevividness through which they are painted, they are testimonies of the dualitiesof joy and agony, of belonging and displacement, of tenderness and harshness.There is no other position but to see them and be, even for a moment,unavoidably faced with their striking presence. Their monumentality is of arebelling new-found comfort in their bodies, despite being constantly othered.