Artist field note

Wangechi Mutu

The body rebuilt from the images that consume it.

Crouching Figure by Wangechi Mutu
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Crouching Figure

2016

A bronze female-cyborg body appears ancient and futuristic at once, as if archaeology has discovered tomorrow.

The five in one idea

Mutu cuts apart inherited images of the female and African body, then builds beings that answer to nobody else’s taxonomy.