Name: Otobong Nkanga Lecture
Start: 2025-04-08T18:00:00-05:00
End: 2025-04-08T19:30:00-05:00
Location: The Art Institute of Chicago

Join us for a lecture by artist Otobong Nkanga followed by an audience Q&A.
Location: The Art Institute of Chicago, Fullerton Hall, 111 S. Michigan Ave.
Otobong Nkanga’s multidisciplinary practice examines the complex social, political, ecological, and material relationships between bodies, territories, minerals, and the earth. Unsettling the divisions between minimal and conceptual or sensual and surreal approaches, the artist’s research-based practice constellates humans and landscapes, organic and non-organic matter. Through drawing, installation, performance, photography, textiles, and sculpture, Nkanga creates pathways translating the natural world into networked, aggregated situations evoking memory, labor, home, care, ownership, emotion, touch, and smell. Reframing people and objects as compressed multitudes and as entities that come into being in relation to other entities, Nkanga deftly weaves insights from geology, botany, poetry, and non-Western knowledge systems.
This event is free, non-ticketed and open to the general public. Learn more at saic.edu/vap
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