# @21chotels on Instagram

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- **Posted:** 2021-10-11T20:13:58.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** 21c Museum Hotels (@21cHotels) — https://gondola.cc/21cHotels

## Caption

A Native American artist of Cherokee and Choctaw heritage, Jeffrey Gibson explores the material histories and futures of several Indigenous handcraft techniques and aesthetics, including Southeastern river cane basket weaving, Algonquian birch bark biting, and porcupine quillwork. The helmet sculptures included here were created for a 2019 exhibition at New York’s New Museum, entitled “The Anthropophagic Effect.” The phrase is derived from Oswald de Andrade’s legendary 1928 Anthropophagic Manifesto, which asserted that indigenous communities could “devour” colonizers’ culture as a way to resist and radically transform Western culture. Describing his work as inspired by practices that have long predated the arrival of colonizers on the American continent, the artist says “I engage materials and techniques as strategies to describe a contemporary narrative that addresses the past in order to place oneself in the present and to begin new potential trajectories for the future.” The future Gibson envisions is one that honors and celebrates the complexity of both cultural and personal identity. The garment on view is inspired by the regalia associated with the Ghost Dance, a 19th-century Native American practice conceived as a resistance to white domination; its bright palette also refers to queer club culture, thus making visible another community that has historically been oppressed. ⁠⁠
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Jeffrey Gibson, Prism, 2018 ⁠⁠
Repurposed quilt, printed chiffon, polyester organza, printed polyester, polyester satin, polyester batting, nylon ribbon, vintage appliqués, vintage whimsies, vintage brass stamping, rhinestone appliqués, vintage beaded hair barrette, assorted glass, plastic, and stone beads, and artificial sinew on tipi poles ⁠⁠
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The Anthropophagic Effect, Helmet no.1, 2019 ⁠⁠
Split reed, brass bells, metal jingles, cotton thread, acrylic medium, artificial sinew ⁠⁠
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Courtesy of the artist; Sikkema Jenkins & Co., New York; Kavi Gupta Gallery, Chicago; and Roberts Projects, Los Angeles ⁠⁠
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