FORUM: The de Young Museum is betting that kehindewileyart's star power will attract a large and diverse audience despite the subject of ”An Archaeology of Silence.”
The de Young Museum is betting that Kehinde Wiley’s star power will attract a large and diverse audience despite the subject of ”An Archaeology of Silence,” described in the program notes as “a haunting meditation on the legacies of colonialism and systemic racism.” In other words, an invitation to contemplate the lives and deaths of young Black people.
“One of the notions that is very important to me in the show has to do with the notion of the magical,” Wiley told me. “This is the kind of magic realism that posits both the ugly truth but also a beautiful and flawed possible future. It [this collection] is a world, but it is not the world and that helps in terms of dealing with the world.”
Abram Jackson, director of interpretations for the de Young and the Legion of Honor, said that for many months seven community “interpretation partners” worked with the museum to help the exhibition be a meaningful experience for museum goers. “They suggested shifting the language from ‘Black bodies’ to ‘Black people.’ Black people inhabit those Black bodies,” he said.
Wiley cited paintings of martyrs and the veneration of the body of Christ — as well as Confederate monuments —as references for this collection. He began making most of this work during the many months he was riding out the pandemic shutdown at Black Rock, his artist residency complex in Senegal. In 2019, he unveiled “Rumors of War,” a massive bronze of a young Black man, locs waving in the breeze, astride a horse modeled on a monument of Confederate general J.E.B. Stuart.
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