From March 5–8, VOLTA NY will feature the work of Bahamian artist Lavar Munroe at Nomad Gallery’s booth. Through painting and stitched works, the impassioned artist explores the sensitive topic of 19th-century freak shows and human zoos (see Exhibit B Might Be Offensive To Some But That’s No Reason to Close It Down).
The artist focuses on the stigma of human difference. He incorporates ethnologic illustrations and advertisements in his works, pairing, for example, human beings and animal counterparts, as was characteristic of human zoo exhibits during the late 1800s.
