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“The Black body . . . carries all the ghosts and the myths and the clichés coming from the outside, from abroad, from elsewhere,” Niang has said. In these works—part of Niang’s series Sama Guent Guii, a Wolof phrase that translates to “this dream that I had”—human figures coalesce into ethereal blooms of lush hues. Niang’s “non-portraits,” as she terms them, employ abstraction to offer pictures of shifting selves. “I have come to think of the self as a territory of well-curated memories and erasures,” the artist states. “We have to forget what we were in order to become anew.”
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Gallery 212. . the reality of the human condition,” Lotus L. Kang has said.” Kang and the other artists on view in this gallery describe forms of selfhood, both human and nonhuman, that are entangled with past and place.
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