About The Work
A wrap-around print of Mutu's Yo Mama: a piece dedicated to the mother of Fela Kuti as both social commentary and expression of the divine. A rich color palate combined with exquisite collage makes for a truly functional art accessory. Acclaimed artist Wangechi Mutu (b. 1972 Nairobi, Kenya) works across painting, collage, drawing, sculpture, and film, developing hybrid, fantastical forms that fuse mythical and folkloric narratives with layered sociohistorical references. Mutu's practice consistently challenges the ways in which cultures and histories have traditionally been classified and proffers new models for a radically changed future informed by feminism, Afrofuturism, and interspecies symbiosis.
Yo Mama, 2003, Ink, mica flakes, acrylic, pressure-sensitive film, cut-and-pasted printed paper, and painted paper on paper, diptych: 59 1/8 × 85 in (150.2 × 215.9 cm) overall. The Museum of Modern Art, New York. The Judith Rothschild Foundation Contempory
Courtesy of New Museum
About Wangechi Mutu
From The Magazine
- Interviews & Features: Artspace Editions are on show at Christie's this month
- Interviews & Features: Wangechi Mutu – ‘Working with prints is a kind of archaeography. It's my way to conjure something from the past that can tell me something'
- Interviews & Features: Wangechi Mutu and the allure of the water spirit and siren
- Interviews & Features: Wangechi Mutu on Art, Life & Everything In Between
- Interviews & Features: Wise Words From Ten Artworld Insiders
About The Work
A wrap-around print of Mutu's Yo Mama: a piece dedicated to the mother of Fela Kuti as both social commentary and expression of the divine. A rich color palate combined with exquisite collage makes for a truly functional art accessory. Acclaimed artist Wangechi Mutu (b. 1972 Nairobi, Kenya) works across painting, collage, drawing, sculpture, and film, developing hybrid, fantastical forms that fuse mythical and folkloric narratives with layered sociohistorical references. Mutu's practice consistently challenges the ways in which cultures and histories have traditionally been classified and proffers new models for a radically changed future informed by feminism, Afrofuturism, and interspecies symbiosis.
Yo Mama, 2003, Ink, mica flakes, acrylic, pressure-sensitive film, cut-and-pasted printed paper, and painted paper on paper, diptych: 59 1/8 × 85 in (150.2 × 215.9 cm) overall. The Museum of Modern Art, New York. The Judith Rothschild Foundation Contempory
Courtesy of New Museum
About Wangechi Mutu
From The Magazine
- Interviews & Features: Artspace Editions are on show at Christie's this month
- Interviews & Features: Wangechi Mutu – ‘Working with prints is a kind of archaeography. It's my way to conjure something from the past that can tell me something'
- Interviews & Features: Wangechi Mutu and the allure of the water spirit and siren
- Interviews & Features: Wangechi Mutu on Art, Life & Everything In Between
- Interviews & Features: Wise Words From Ten Artworld Insiders
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