Daniel Santangelo
Untitled, 2024
Acrylic on canvas
122 x 92 cm
48 x 36 1/4 in
48 x 36 1/4 in
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A conversation between contemporary black culture and religious and spiritual images, the piece draws on sacred heart iconography seen in European religious art from the late 17th century. The figure...
A conversation between contemporary black culture and religious and spiritual images, the piece draws on sacred heart iconography seen in European religious art from the late 17th century. The figure is depicted wearing extravagant nail art, commemorating a form of black self-expression that has often been undervalued; regarded as gaudy and inappropriate by wider society. The work intends to traverse ideas such as divinity, beauty and the heavenly through an afrocentric perspective.
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