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Malcolm Mobutu Smith: Evermore Nevermore | 360 tour et VR

Hunterdon Art Museum, Lower Center Street, Clinton, NJ, USA

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Born of the anxieties, fears, and uncertainties emanating from ongoing social-political frictions, I felt an urgent and guttural need to respond through my work. The works here are a continuation of series begun over a decade ago as we greeted, through grinning-yet-gritted teeth, our first Black president. Despite, or unfortunately, precisely because of this achievement, it peeled back the thin veil hiding the hate pulsing and coursing and seething through the body of our country. Some of the works presented here — Looking Back at the Future and Hoof n Mouth – are from that original series, acting as a bridge to the present, declaring unfinished business, and corroborating that old news continues to be new news. The issues that birthed these works have only entrenched us deeper into a society that now, again, is emboldened to celebrate hate. And so, I continue to feel and respond. Evermore Nevermore offers deadpan, sardonic totems as reflections of a festering hate-filled past to a confused and unrepentant present. At times the work presents a sarcastic specter holding up despicable representations to us, like a visual version of nails on a chalkboard. Yet weirdly they may also act as hopeful monuments sparking ideas for change, rather than not-so-forgotten uglinesses still boiling in the psyche of our culture and its people.

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