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The Swing (after Fragonard)
2001
Fragonard’s aristocratic pleasure is restaged with a headless mannequin in Dutch-wax cloth. Rococo elegance acquires an imperial afterlife.
Artist field note
Yinka Shonibare
Empire dressed for the party.
Appears inAfrica & The African Diaspora
The five in one idea
Shonibare makes colonial history impossible to separate from taste, costume, luxury and the stories nations tell about themselves.