Weekly Selfie 6 - Collage - MB

 

Monique Boss, "Untitled", 2024. 

From the Archives:

Wangechi Mutu Dresses

Cultural Critique in Freakishly Beautiful

Disguises

Quotes: 

"In the Ark works, the pornographic poses are unmistakable-legs spread, hands reaching down, fingers positioned to part labia or buttocks-but Mutu has obliterated all the explicit parts."

"The work is a

perfect melding of two of Mutu's concerns: stereotypical depictions of exoticized 

African women and of hyper-sexualized African-American women."

Wangechi Mutu:

An Imagined World Made Possible

"Her collages, sculptures and videos examine the exploitation, resilience and grandeur of Black women, as social, spiritual and mythic beings."

"There doesn't seem to be anything Mutu can't manage. When the strains of "Amazing Grace, sung a cappella by the artist, waft through a stairwell leading to the fourth floor, it is Mutu providing the soundtrack (and laid-in backup) for a short video of the same name in which she walks into the shimmering sea, clothed in white, in an act of self-baptism and meditation."