![]() With their short film now streaming online (and in this article), we speak with Adeyemi about what conversations they hope the poem will open up, the creative direction of the short film, and how, as a society, we can shift the language and perceptions around fatness, Blackness, and mental health. “My fat gets up for tea and doughnuts in the morning / It clouds eyes with pity,” they continue, traversing experiences of bullying, unsolicited advice – such as receiving an obesity certificate in year six – unnecessary comments, and the sexualisation of their body. “I am fat,” begins Adeyemi’s poem, “Fat, Black, & Sad”, unveiled in a new short film exploring fatphobia, healthism, and the artist’s own experiences as a fat, Black person, commissioned by the Barbican Guildhall Creative Learning’s Subject to Change: New Horizons programme. Even as the image of Adeyemi cuts to black, there is the sense that they will stay there for much longer than we did. There are small movements – a stretch of a leg, a hand pulling tighter around the plush material, the blinking of eyes – but Adeyemi remains like this for the film’s two-minute duration. Gazing towards the viewer, their face is relaxed, subdued. Destiny Adeyemi is lying on their side, sandwiched between the kitchen work top and the cabinets installed above, their body draped in a heavy red velvet curtain.
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