BOUGAINVILLEA
An Exploration of Adornment
Faena Art Project Room, 2022
Bougainvillea: An Exploration of Adornment is a site-specific installation by Cornelius Tulloch that explores Caribbean cultural aesthetics. The fashion and music of Jamaica’s Dancehall scene echoes the state of the country and the lived experiences of those on the island. In this exhibition Tulloch reimagines the everydayness of contemporary Caribbean culture through the lens of dancehall, Jamaican Junkanoo, and masquerade. This new photographic series plays with Black visual aesthetics and creates an environment that overflows from the photographs into the design elements constructed specifically for the Faena Art Project Room.
Fashion has always been a regarded form of expression throughout Jamaica, and this series invites the viewer into the artist’s unique relationship with culture to rethink how to tell their own stories and reflect a contemporary lifestyle in the clothing and adornment they wear.
Cornelius Tulloch thanks his collaborators Diana Eusebio and Nadia Wolff for their work on this exhibition.
Exhibtion Interview Walkthrough: https://www.instagram.com/reel/CiN3B6LJYwa/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link
Faena Art: https://www.faenaart.org/cornelius-tulloch
Bougainvillea Photo Series
Performance (In collaboration with Iyanna the Model, NAdia Wolff, Arsimmer McCoy, and Muzelle; Documented by Sol Alonzo)
