Kehinde Wiley: An Archaeology of Silence

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<p><strong>¿That is the archaeology I am unearthing: the specter of police violence and state control over the bodies of young Black and brown people all over the world.¿ ¿Kehinde Wiley</strong></p><p><I>Kehinde Wiley: An Archaeology of Silence</I> features a new body of paintings and sculptures by American artist Kehinde Wiley confronting the legacies of colonialism through the visual language of the fallen figure. It expands on a subject the artist first explored in his 2008 series <I>Down</I>¿a group of large-scale portraits of young Black men inspired by Wiley¿s encounter with Hans Holbein the Younger¿s <I>The Dead Christ in the Tomb</I> (1521¿22) at the Kunstmuseum Basel. Holbein¿s painting triggered an ongoing investigation into the iconography of death and sacrifice in Western art that Wiley traced across religious, mythological and historical subjects. <I>An Archaeology of Silence</I> extends these considerations to include men and women around the world whose senseless deaths,