{"id":10559,"date":"2024-03-04T11:00:46","date_gmt":"2024-03-04T16:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/?p=10559"},"modified":"2024-02-27T19:04:14","modified_gmt":"2024-02-28T00:04:14","slug":"tuli-mekondjo-at-hales-gallery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/2024\/03\/04\/tuli-mekondjo-at-hales-gallery\/","title":{"rendered":"Tuli Mekondjo at Hales Gallery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Displaced as a child from her native Namibia, Windhoek-based artist Tuli Mekondjo considers her country\u2019s past in textile and photo-based work now on view at <a href=\"https:\/\/halesgallery.com\/exhibitions\/222-tuli-mekondjo-sida-oana-mapa-ha-where-are-our\/\">Hales Gallery<\/a> in Chelsea. This piece\u2019s title, \u2018Khaxatsus (Gibeon), 1863,\u2019 refers to the original and the colonial names for the hometown of IKhowesin chief Hendrik Witbooi, who is recognized for his military action against German colonizers in the late 19<sup>th<\/sup> &#8211; early 20<sup>th<\/sup>century.\u00a0 Posing in a photograph with his family and surrounded in a frame of lace at the center of this textile piece, Witbooi is pictured as family man as much as national hero.\u00a0 (On view through March 9<sup>th<\/sup>).<\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 2442px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/mcusercontent.com\/6c6876dc7ff53694967151f73\/images\/d9144a7f-659d-16ec-372a-92fd177b6c51.jpg\" width=\"2442\" height=\"3021\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tuli Mekondjo, \u2018Khaxatsus (Gibeon), 1863,\u2019 image transfer, silk, linen, sheer fabric, cotton yarn, lace, tracing paper, soil, plants, and rusted enamel cup, 67 \u00bd x 50 x 2 inches, 2024.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Displaced as a child from her native Namibia, Windhoek-based artist Tuli Mekondjo considers her country\u2019s past in textile and photo-based work now on view at Hales Gallery in Chelsea. This piece\u2019s title, \u2018Khaxatsus (Gibeon), 1863,\u2019 refers to the original and the colonial names for the hometown of IKhowesin chief Hendrik Witbooi, who is recognized for &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/2024\/03\/04\/tuli-mekondjo-at-hales-gallery\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Tuli Mekondjo at Hales Gallery&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[5,4],"tags":[10793,10795,1620,10792,10794,650,10791],"class_list":["post-10559","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dont-miss","category-hottest-show","tag-hales-gallery","tag-hendrik-witbooi","tag-history","tag-khaxatsus-gibeon","tag-namibia","tag-textile-art","tag-tuli-mekondjo"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BDOD-2Kj","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10559","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10559"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10559\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10560,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10559\/revisions\/10560"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}