KING COBRA's 'Heathens' Exhibition Confronts Colonial Violence Through Visceral Sculpture

KING COBRA's solo exhibition 'Heathens' opens at Sikkema Malloy Jenkins on March 27, 2026, marking the artist's debut with the gallery. Through visceral sculptural and performance works, COBRA confronts histories of colonial violence and racial subjugation. The artist employs synthetic and organic materials to create corporeal forms that expose whiteness as a festering wound—often concealed but sustained through spiritual and physical cannibalism of Black and 'other' bodies. By merging medical pathologies and abject imagery with kink culture, COBRA's practice interrogates how power is constructed, dissected, subdued, and debased. The exhibition will be on view in the gallery's back galleries through May 2, 2026, offering a raw examination of consumption and perversion underlying systemic oppression.