Entering the Central Pavilion of the 61st Venice Biennale, in the Giardini, is quite ritualistic: first, one must pass through the columns transformed into plant nurseries by the Nigerian artist Otobong Nkanga. Then, one passes by the costumes of Big Chief Demond Melancon, leader of the Young Seminole Hunters tribe of the Lower Ninth Ward of New Orleans, inspired by ceremonial practices brought to the United States by enslaved Africans.
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