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“Other Nigerian precolonial cultures saw multiple births as a biological omen and a portent of bad will,” Tayo wrote in an artist’s statement.
This can be an issue of life and death. Speaking to Reuters last year, Stevens Olusola Ajayi, who runs the Vine Heritage Home Foundation shelter for children at risk of infanticide in the Nigerian capital of Abuja, said twin babies in certain cultures are killed with poisonous plants or abandoned in a room until they starve to death. When mothers die in childbirth, twins have been strapped to her body and buried.
Having a twin, then, means you are often defined by just that. In his artistic statement, Tayo writes: “Because of the myths surrounding twins, many people address twins as a single unit, defining their value to the tribe by their proximity and emotional intimacy between the pair. Individuality is frowned upon, and fraternal twins are considered less ‘authentic’ than identical twins.”
“I was trying to weigh the psychological balance between the pressure of having to be identical and the natural want to have a different and distinct mindset… Because being a Yoruba twin has a massive impact on how twins form and consider their own sense of identity,” Tayo said. “I was interested in that question: What is it like to have one’s identity always defined by the presence of another?”
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