Meet the residents of Alexander McQueen's foundation: Michaela Yearwood Dan has just finished a series titled 'Love Letters to Siri' and Rosa-Johan Uddoh is passionate about the politics surrounding black and British identities. It started with a neutral canvas onto which she etched the word ‘prick’. ‘Which felt about right,’ she laughs. ‘Honestly, Brexit looks like a sweet little fairytale compared to the shambles of my love life when I started it.
Just out of a relationship, crying herself down the Kingsland Road on the way to the Sarabande studios, she’d turn to that trusted, digitised voice with the answers to everything for repose. ‘We live in an age of strong feminist women and the idea of the “strong” [her quotation marks] black woman, which I hate. To show vulnerability is seen as weakness.’ So she asked Siri for some answers. ‘I’ve asked her what her gender is and she says she’s not a woman.
In school, Michaela says she was taught about ‘every white Western artist under the sun’. She found it super boring. ‘Your nan knows about Picasso. The woman down the chippy knows about Picasso. And he’s literally the Harvey Weinstein of the art world. Sod Picasso.’ When she discovered Chris Ofili, her life’s ambition pivoted to its true calling. ‘It was amazing, political, colourful, tongue in cheek and no one had told us about him.
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