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Shikeith — Ceremonies
Shikeith — Ceremonies
Shikeith — Ceremonies
Shikeith — Ceremonies
Shikeith — Ceremonies
Shikeith

Ceremonies

2024

Ceremonies presents a bronze figurative sculpture in which Shikeith renders the Black male body as a site of ritual, vulnerability, and enduring grace. Standing at just over eighty centimeters, the work commands an intimate physical presence, inviting the viewer into close proximity with a form that feels simultaneously monumental and tender. The choice of bronze, a material long associated with commemoration and permanence, becomes pointed here, as Shikeith applies it to bodies historically excluded from such honorific treatment. The result is a work that quietly insists on the sacred dimension of Black masculine interiority, transforming the sculptural tradition from within. Shikeith's practice spans video, photography, and now sculpture, and across each medium the artist sustains a consistent preoccupation with the interior lives of Black men navigating grief, desire, and spiritual longing. Ceremonies extends this inquiry into three dimensions, where the stillness of bronze intensifies rather than forecloses emotional complexity. The figure does not perform for an audience but appears absorbed in its own private rite, a quality that gives the work its ceremonial weight. Produced in an edition of five and signed by the artist, this work is available through Yossi Milo Gallery and represents a significant evolution in Shikeith's material thinking. For collectors, Ceremonies offers both aesthetic and cultural significance at a pivotal moment in Shikeith's career. The limited edition scale ensures rarity, while the work's engagement with questions of Black dignity and commemoration positions it within a broader conversation about which bodies deserve to be cast, preserved, and memorialized. This is sculpture as an act of witness, carefully conceived and precisely executed.

Medium
Bronze
Overall
Signed
Yes
Location
Yossi Milo Gallery, New York, NY

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Shikeith, Ceremonies, 2024

Ceremonies presents a bronze figurative sculpture in which Shikeith renders the Black male body as a site of ritual, vulnerability, and enduring grace. Standing at just over eighty centimeters, the work commands an intimate physical presence, inviting the viewer into close proximity with a form that feels simultaneously monumental and tender. The choice of bronze, a material long associated with commemoration and permanence, becomes pointed here, as Shikeith applies it to bodies historically excluded from such honorific treatment. The result is a work that quietly insists on the sacred dimension of Black masculine interiority, transforming the sculptural tradition from within. Shikeith's practice spans video, photography, and now sculpture, and across each medium the artist sustains a consistent preoccupation with the interior lives of Black men navigating grief, desire, and spiritual longing. Ceremonies extends this inquiry into three dimensions, where the stillness of bronze intensifies rather than forecloses emotional complexity. The figure does not perform for an audience but appears absorbed in its own private rite, a quality that gives the work its ceremonial weight. Produced in an edition of five and signed by the artist, this work is available through Yossi Milo Gallery and represents a significant evolution in Shikeith's material thinking. For collectors, Ceremonies offers both aesthetic and cultural significance at a pivotal moment in Shikeith's career. The limited edition scale ensures rarity, while the work's engagement with questions of Black dignity and commemoration positions it within a broader conversation about which bodies deserve to be cast, preserved, and memorialized. This is sculpture as an act of witness, carefully conceived and precisely executed.

Medium
Bronze
Dimensions
overall: 81.3 x 29.8 x 24.8 cm
Year
2024
Edition
of 5
Signed
Hand-signed by the artist
Seen at
Yossi Milo Gallery, New York, NY

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Gavin Kennedy