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Histology of the Different Classes of Uterine Tumors
2004-05
Medical diagrams mutate into faces. Clinical classification becomes a disturbing form of portraiture.
Artist field note
Wangechi Mutu
The body rebuilt from the images that consume it.
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.