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Body: Instrument and File marks Mangovo’s first exhibition in New York and will open on June 15th, at 413 West Broadway, with an opening reception from 6-8pm.

This body of work connects disappearing rituals from Angola with scenes of nature and metropolitan life. Making a painting of disappearing Angolan traditions, like Tchikumbi, an ancestral rite of initiation and fertility, allows Mangovo to memorialize these traditions and pass them on to others. His visual story-telling functions as a method of cultural preservation, conveying the message that all cultures, though varied, should be …