Djeneba Aduayom

“A few years back, I sustained an injury on a tour. I ended up having a hip and knee surgery, and then, I was told this was the end of my career as a dancer. After a traumatic year, I was left feeling like I had lost everything. But of course, my inner self knew that you can reinvent yourself any number of times… As children, we have many ways of expression. Then, as we grow, we lose them because we are taught how to fit in one box. I do not want to be trapped by conventions and that is even a paradox for me because I am also a conventional person on one side. I am an introvert, which kind of puts me in a virtual box of certain limitations. It is overwhelming for me to express myself with words…To try to express it with words would intellectualize it to a certain extent and to me, it would lose its value. The bubble series, for example, started because inside my head, I am in that bubble or introversion. I realized that there are many people who have that invisible bubble for other reasons, so I merged a part of my own inner world with theirs to create a series that is more of a feel…”

-Metal Magazine

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