Kerry James Marshall’s Many Mansions emerged partly from the contradiction he saw in Chicago public housing projects carrying names such as “Gardens.” The painting places an idealised landscape against the reality suggested by the housing blocks behind it. Names can be tiny pieces of architecture too. Call somewhere a garden and language begins constructing a place that may never actually exist.
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