Wangechi Mutu: I Am Speaking, Are You Listening?
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Fantastical
Feminism
Postcolonialism
San Francisco
Wangechi Mutu
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- ISBN 9781636810058
- Dimensions: 216 x 267mm
- Publication Date: 16 Dec 2021
- Publisher: Distributed Art Publishers
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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Between Afrofuturism, fantasy and postcolonialism: the most comprehensive monograph to date on the fantastical worlds of Wangechi Mutu
Published with Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco.
Wangechi Mutu takes viewers on journeys of material, psychological and sociopolitical transformation; this volume explores her most recent groundbreaking work. Over the past two decades, Mutu has created chimerical constellations of powerful female characters, hybrid beings and fantastical landscapes. With a rare understanding of the need for powerful new mythologies beyond simple binaries and stereotypes, Mutu breaches common distinctions between human, animal, plant and machine.
An artist who calls both Nairobi and New York City home, Mutu moves voraciously between cultural traditions to challenge colonialist, racist and sexist worldviews with her visionary projection of an alternate universe informed by Afrofuturism, posthumanism and feminism.
This dazzling book accompanies a presentation of Mutu’s new work on view at the Legion, along with a greater selection from her landmark oeuvre. It is the most comprehensive book on the artist to date.
