Twilight of the Idols (Fetish) 3

2005 Overall: 140 x 43 x 39 cm (55 1/8 x 16 15/16 x 15 3/8 in.)
https://clevelandart.org/art/2018.4

To create this sculpture, Kendell Geers appropriates a nkisi nkondi (singular) sculpture of the Kongo people that was mass-produced for the tourist market. Minkisi (plural) figures were typically used as protective relics; the nails on it represent the many times the object wo...

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