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# Seychelle Allah Talks Space Slave Trade & His Aggregate Style
- URL: https://hyperallergic.com/seychelle-allah-space-slave-trade/
- Published: 2010-11-22T14:30:08.000Z
- Updated: 2025-11-24T16:19:39.000Z
- Description: One of the figures behind Space Slave Trade, Seychelle Allah discusses his brand of afrofuturism that layers the visual culture around him into a world in which the aggregate plays an important role. Allah’s relationship with social media has been complex. Space Slave Trade, named after a friend's b
- Author: Hrag Vartanian
- Tags: Interview, #image-position-hidden, Afrofuturism, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2025-11-17 09:23 (2009-2011)

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Seychelle Allah in front of “Nuclear Tropics II: Escape from Bikini Peel” (2010).

One of the figures behind Space Slave Trade, Seychelle Allah discusses his brand of afrofuturism that layers the visual culture around him into a world in which the aggregate plays an important role.

Allah’s relationship with social media has been complex. Space Slave Trade, named after a friend’s band, started after he was kicked off Facebook for sharing images deemed inappropriate by the service. The resulting [blog](http://www.spaceslavetrade.com/?ref=hyperallergic.com) is NSFW and careens from porn-like images with young Asian girls to absurd representations of starving Africans. The aesthetic is young, fresh, and aggressive without being violent.

His 2-D work, like “Nuclear Tropics II: Escape from Bikini Peel” (2010), which is exhibited in [*#TheSocialGraph*](http://hyperallergic.com/thesocialgraph), is a visual explosion that portrays a friends of his in a state of rebirth in cyberspace. Allah explains in the interview that social media feels like one of the most natural things he has ever done, and he considers it a form a nature.

Still a student, we’re sure to be hearing more from Allah as his work, and Space Slave Trade, develops. The following is an interview conducted at the Outpost.