Paintings are a window into the soul of “Candyman,” the story of a budding artist who becomes fascinated with the urban legend of a killer with a hook for a hand. In Nia DaCosta’s update of the 199…
,” the story of a budding artist who becomes fascinated with the urban legend of a killer with a hook for a hand.’s update of the 1992 horror film, opening Aug. 27, the artist’s work starts to consume him and begins affecting his life. Yahya Abdul Mateen II plays artist Anthony McCoy, while his girlfriend Brianna Cartwright, played by “WandaVision” actor Teyonah Parris, is a gallery director steeped in Chicago’s art scene.
He describes his artwork as reflective of Black culture and the Black experience in America. “It’s a critique and problematization of the relationship between specific racialized forms of state or cultural violence and their normalization in popular culture writ large,” he says. “Everything in that is super saturated so if it’s in the background, you can see what it is,” he explains. In the film, the piece hangs in Anthony’s apartment. Spratley also created the paintings that lie behind the interactive mirror on display at the gallery. In the legend of the Candyman, if his name is summoned five times while the speaker is looking in a mirror, the sinister figure appears.
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