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MUMBO JUMBO | FRANCKS DECEUS
FiveMyles
558 St Johns Place
Brooklyn, 11238, United States
tel: 718.783.4438
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May 28, 2022 - June 26, 2022
Reception:
May 28, 5:30pm - 8:00pm
Opening: Saturday, May 28, 5:30-8pm
From 6-7pm, live music by Kenge Kenge, an eight-person ensemble from Nairobi, Kenya, specializing in benga, a traditional folk rhythm originating in the 1940s.
This exhibition explores the tension between self-actualization and the social structures Black immigrant men must often live within in the United States.
These pressures, experienced by the Haitian-born artist, are embodied in a number of symbolic visual representations. Such figures of loaded symbolism include the hose, which was a tool of violence in the civil rights movement.