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Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Nikko Washington, World's Largest Machine , 2022
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Nikko Washington USA, b. 1993

World's Largest Machine , 2022
Oil on canvas
48 x 48 in
121.9 x 121.9 cm
8778

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Nikko Washington’s painting World’s Largest Machine addresses the artist’s feelings towards the prison industrial complex. The figures in the painting are faceless, except for a ghostly image of a face...
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Nikko Washington’s painting World’s Largest Machine addresses the artist’s feelings towards the prison industrial complex. The figures in the painting are faceless, except for a ghostly image of a face on the orange wall of the prison, and the skull sitting atop a book on a table in the foreground. The work speaks about the private prisons that are profiting from the mass incarceration of Black and Brown men, a practice that increased during the global COVID pandemic. Washington mobilizes this image of a deadened environment, presented almost like a theatrical set, as a means of archiving and contextualizing the present through the lens of mythology and storytelling. “Unfortunately, I have friends in this system,” Washington says. “I thought back to people during the beginning of COVID comparing lockdown to being in jail. It upset me, so I chose to express my feelings through my practice.”
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