William Villalongo: Water Root at Monique Meloche Gallery, Chicago
Primarily an artist that works in painting and 2D, Water Root (2012) is William Villalongo's first video film project.
In collaboration with the poet Nicole Sealey, the artist's recent paintings come to life. Real actors are transformed into the graphic characters from his paintings while the poem that narrates the video muses on the distances between mortality and immortality, heroic efforts and futility.
