D’ANGELO LOVELL WILLIAMS – PAPA DON’T PREACH
2020-05-04Janice Guy and Higher Pictures present Papa Don’t Preach by D’Angelo Lovell Williams. This is the artist’s first exhibition with Janice Guy and fourth solo presentation with Higher Pictures.
January 7th, 2020, I was diagnosed with HIV. Only a handful of chosen family knew up until now. I’m on Biktarvy, taken once a day to suppress the virus. Soon I’ll be undetectable. Discovery is one of the driving forces behind the work. Drawing from moments of love, intimacy and kinship, I use my body in the home and the landscape to reconcile with our history. In the images, I aim to puncture the realm of self-awareness, creating a space where the spirits of Black bodies can live freely in their encounters with one another. My father and my mama’s mama, both reborn and never to sin again, provoke a renewed existence. The earth engulfs me as I pull the love of my life into the unknown. Confident, tender hands cradle the flesh of loved ones, immediate family, and the self, embodying gestures of both defiance and care. The demanding scenes mimic portals, delivering us to the parts of our own history that still linger in the every day.
D’Angelo Lovell Williams
Opposite – Daddy Issues, 2019
Exhibition runs through to May 9th, 2020
Higher Pictures
980 Madison Avenue
New York, NY 10075
