British-born and of Sierra Leonean descent, Timothy divides his time between London and Freetown, and his art is rooted in issues of identity, migration, and the ways people and objects navigate borders. I don’t think that’s accidental the chord, as a structural device, is a kind of musical distillation of his interests. But as a musician, he has remained doggedly focused on a singular tonal language, with the chord at its center. As a multidisciplinary artist, Timothy works with a wide array of materials: His projects have encompassed textiles, food, and interventions in public space. Suddenly, he realized how powerful “just a few chords, repeated, looping round,” could be, he has said. ![]() ![]() Young Duval Timothy struggled through piano lessons, but when a friend taught him the chords to Amy Winehouse’s “Stronger Than Me,” something clicked.
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