Ebun Sodipo
Ebun Sodipo is an artist and writer who makes work for black trans people of the future. Guided by black feminist study and a methodology of collage and fabulation, her work locates and produces real and imaginable narratives of black trans women's presence, embodiment, and interiority across the past, present, and future. In doing this, Ebin Sodipo fills in historical gaps to create moments of archival pleasure for black trans people. This work takes place across multiple spaces: galleries, festivals, theater, digital, and print; in varied forms such as sound, performance, text, installation, video, and sculpture.
She/Her
Photo by Matteo Strocchia
‘The Way Her Tongue Settled’ live at Cardion Nights, 2025
The Way Her Tongue Settled' drew on archival fragments relating to the life of Vitoria, an enslaved African trans woman living in Lisbon in the 16th century. The performance took the form of a semi-fictional story, told by the artist through song, movement, and monologue. Playing with language, the performance aimed to reveal the loss of the world/context Vitoria came from; lingered on the contradictions involved in sex work in order to think through the hegemonic (sexual) desire for and repulsion to the trans feminine, a dynamic that was traced from the 16th century to the present day through the motif of eroticism.
Photo by Christa Holka
