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Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Acrylic and velvet flock painting of a tray with meat, beer, a gun, flowers and other items with a dead bird and sneakers suspended above
Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Acrylic and velvet flock painting of a tray with meat, beer, a gun, flowers and other items with a dead bird and sneakers suspended above hung on wall

WILLIAM VILLALONGO

Feast with Nkisi, 2021
Acrylic and velvet flock on wood panel
72 x 56 x 2 in.
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On a silver platter, symbols of colonial power are balanced by stolen objects of cultural significance. The nkisi nkondi figure, a source of spiritual and physical healing, is represented lying...
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On a silver platter, symbols of colonial power are balanced by stolen objects of cultural significance. The nkisi nkondi figure, a source of spiritual and physical healing, is represented lying down. Its position symbolizes its diminished status as an object of conquest. The nkisi figure's healing power is further complicated by the gun that acts as its pillow. The sextant just behind the nkisi is a device primarily used for celestial navigation, measuring the angle between an astronomical object and the horizon to determine latitude, altitude, or position on an aeronautical or nautical chart. The vase of Dutch flowers and Olde English malt liquor reference colonial power. Olde English malt liquor was also a preferred drink of early 90s rappers. The hanging shoes are a nod to the practice of tossing shoes over a power line as a memorial. The cheese, carrots, and ducks refer to monetary gain, the latter an appropriation from the Flemish painter Justus Sustermans' Still Life with Two Wild Ducks Hung Up from 1640. Garlic, peeled orange, and prosciutto round out the globally manifested feast.
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Exhibitions

"William Villalongo: Myths and Migrations," Grinnell College Museum of Art, Grinnell, IA, 26 January 2024 - 6 April 2024; traveled to the Madison Museum of Contemporary Art, Madison, WI, 4 May 2024 - 18 August 2024; Museum of Art, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, 13 September - 21 December 2024; Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA, 15 May 2025 - 31 August 2025.
"Elegies: Still Lifes in Contemporary Art," Telfair Museums, Savannah, GA, 16 September 2022 – 19 February 2023
"Elegies: Still Lifes in Contemporary Art," Museum of the African Diaspora, San Francisco, CA , 31 March 2022 – 21 August 2022
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