A Mural That Honors Black Performers at Rest
Briefly

Each figure in Nkosi's mural 'Arena V' is faceless, expressing a refusal of performance expectations: 'They don't owe you a moment of regard. They don't owe you a moment of performance,' says Nkosi.
Nkosi's works focus on bodily storytelling, conveying intimate moments of athletes without showing faces: 'I'm interested in bodily storytelling, like where a hand is, the [implied] directionality of somebody's gaze,' Nkosi explains.
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