Trokon Nagbe “New Work”

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This exciting new installation by Trokon Nagbe includes a variety of approaches and techniques. Large sheets of rice paper - from 25ft. to 6ft. - are suspended, their surface pierced and marked like scarification on skin. A 15ft. x 15ft. plastic tarp, pierced, burned and glazed with plant oils forms the background of the rice paper installations.

As an African-born first generation American, originally from Liberia, Trokon Nagbe is sensitive to various border-crossings, personal transformations, erasures, and the evolution of spirit that is endemic to the immigrant state. In this installation the strong and identifying images of scarification imbue the space with the artist’s exploration of the slippage between experience and desire, and of the symmetry between loss and permanence.

Trokon Nagbe received his MFA from the Savannah College of Arts in 2004. He has participated in group exhibitions in Paris, and New York. His work has been presented at Smack Mellon and BRIC in Brooklyn and has been written about in Art in America, The New York Times and in the Village Voice for his installation in the Studio Museum of Halem’s “Flow” exhibition in 2008. Most recently his work was shown at the Queens Museum and Abrons Art Center.

“Black Man is Love,
comforting intimacy, from emotional needs
and giving love …in order to feed
your soul.” – Trokon Nagbe