Ussi'n Yala

African communities have always been marginalized and exploited by Westerners. More than a century after the abolition of slavery and more than sixty years after the independence of the African countries, their treatment remains the same today. Discrimination, humiliation, abuse, murder. Africans continue to be represented in the world through the eyes of the oppressor: like inferior beings, savages devoid of all thought with brain capacities reduced to nothing. Ussi’n’s practice documents and celebrates the cultural diversity of the multiple identities that abound in Africa and its diaspora. He deconstructs a narrative imposed by the white man on black communities and shatters stereotypes. As an Afro-queer artist, he also fights for the acceptance of gender diversity in the world. Being a person of color and being part of the LGBTQIA + community he permanently represents a double vulnerability. Victims of discrimination in both white and black societies, rejected on all sides, these experiences are very often overlooked or ignored. Through raw and captivating images, Ussi’n depicts a multifaceted Africa, at the crossroads of genres, cultures, religions and socio-economic status.