%C2%A9 Leonardo Benzant
Radiations of the Midnight Walker, Victorious in Round Number 8, He Who Moves Inside of the Womb of Magik and Timelessness, He Who Moves Here, There, and Everywhere Chanting: I AM THE GREATEST! And Chanting: WITCHCRAFT WILL NEVER TOUCH ME!, 2016
Leonardo Benzantexpand_more
Gift of Mary and Bob Merskyexpand_more 2022.98.14
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Long tubular structures, like tentacles,
Larger than life,
Speak of what is required for the African
To emerge victorious
No matter how many rounds it takes.
It starts with long strands of multicolored Czech glass beads, wrapped around
hand stitched appendages crafted from bundled fabric, bits of soil, plant life,
rum, bone, or even saliva.
The artist says, “There is a prayer inside each of these forms, a prayer, coins, or
other things that are symbolic.”
Thus, the work delves into the collective unconscious, encodes and remembers
African cultural memory, and offers it as an invitation to healing.
Moving us outside of time
Connecting us through strands of DNA,
Quite literally, to the Ancestors—their knowledge-spirituality
Their stature, their power.
Details
- Title
- Radiations of the Midnight Walker, Victorious in Round Number 8, He Who Moves Inside of the Womb of Magik and Timelessness, He Who Moves Here, There, and Everywhere Chanting: I AM THE GREATEST! And Chanting: WITCHCRAFT WILL NEVER TOUCH ME!
- Artist Life
- born 1972
- Role
- Artist
- Accession Number
- 2022.98.14
- Curator Approved
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© Leonardo Benzant