When UK artist Santigold’s (fun fact: Santi rhymes with monty) album, Master of My Make-Believe, dropped earlier this month, many people were struck by the album cover. In a recent interview withKehinde Wiley, the designer of this fascinating cover, Dazed Digital got Wiley to speak on the cover’s conception and on his new exhibit, “An Economy of Grace.” Particularly interesting are the parallels Wiley draws between his work and Santigold’s:
Santi and I are both concerned with decentralising a certain aesthetic taste. Our influences are also similar, pulling from places like Brazil, West Africa, and Sri Lanka. Aesthetically Santi and myself both have an abiding interest in finding parallels between cultures and genres.
This aesthetic of decentralizing is definitely apparent in Santigold’s album cover. In it, disparate art styles and aesthetics are juxtaposed and shown to be both starkly different and surprisingly compatible. For the full interview and a complete look at the new exhibit, click here and here.
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