Nkanga’s work incites us to leap beyond what we think we know and understand and rewire the circuits of our thinking. In Reconciliation (2018), an incomplete mutant figure built up from fractured body parts straddles multiple planes, trying to find a sense of balance by using fragments of earth as counterweights. Reconciliation is a process of growing to feel comfortable with an undesirable or challenging situation. Nkanga was born and brought up in Nigeria and is still closely tied to her culture and land in West Africa while also living and working in Antwerp. Reconciliation is a very personal work of trying to find home and belonging in multiple places, across geographic, race, and gender divides; of trying to carry and grow roots in an increasingly fractured world; and of having the power to be a walking contradiction and to self-define identity and transition into new states of being.