Emmanuel Massillon USA, b. 1998
Dog Food (Smack), 2022
Dog Food, Acrylic Paint, Image Transfer, Sand on Canvas
68 1/10 × 48 in | 173 × 122 cm
signed and dated 2025 verso
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In this painting I used the medium of dog food to represent the skin and bodies of Blacks in America. I felt like using dog food in this work was...
In this painting I used the medium of dog food to represent the skin and bodies of Blacks in America. I felt like using dog food in this work was needed because it was the perfect medium to compare skin color and the act of white Americans feeding blacks to dogs during civil rights protest as a way to establish fear into the minds of Black American’s for years. Another reference for the use of dog food in this painting is the drug “Heroin”. Many people may not know, but heroin in its raw form resembles dog food. So many people have resorted to calling heroin dog food. Both the civil rights movement and the beginning of The drug crisis in Black American neighborhoods were both affecting Black life around the same time which these affects of these two topics can still be felt today ! So by combining these topics into one work I wanted to open conversations about two topics in Black American history that affected Blacks in the past that still effect us today.
Exhibitions
Outer Body Experiences
July 12 – September 7, 2022