Wangechi Mutu. Riding Death in My Sleep, 2002. Ink, collage on paper, 60 x 44 inches. Collection of Peter Norton, New York. © Wangechi Mutu. Image via huffingtonpost.com. |
Wangechi Mutu: A Fantastic Journey
October
11, 2013–March 9, 2014
Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art, 4th Floor
200 Eastern Parkway
Brooklyn, NY
Wangechi
Mutu: A Fantastic Journey is the first survey in the United States of this
internationally renowned, Brooklyn-based artist. Spanning from the mid-1990s to
the present, the exhibition unites more than fifty pieces, including Mutu’s
signature large-scale collages as well as video works, never-before-seen
sketchbook drawings, a site-specific wall drawing, and sculptural
installations.
Born in
Nairobi, Kenya, Mutu scrutinizes globalization by combining found materials,
magazine cutouts, sculpture, and painted imagery. Sampling such diverse sources
as African traditions, international politics, the fashion industry,
pornography, and science fiction, her work explores gender, race, war,
colonialism, global consumption, and the exoticization of the black female
body. Mutu is best known for spectacular and provocative collages depicting
female figures—part human, animal, plant, and machine—in fantastical landscapes
that are simultaneously unnerving and alluring, defying easy categorization and
identification. Bringing her interconnected ecosystems to life for this
exhibition through sculptural installations and videos, Mutu encourages
audiences to consider these mythical worlds as places for cultural,
psychological, and socio-political exploration and transformation.
Wangechi
Mutu: A Fantastic Journey is organized by the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke
University by Trevor Schoonmaker, Chief Curator and Patsy R. and Raymond D.
Nasher Curator of Contemporary Art. The Brooklyn Museum presentation is
coordinated by Saisha Grayson, Assistant Curator, Elizabeth A. Sackler Center
for Feminist Art, Brooklyn Museum.
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