First Wednesday Art Talk

Posted by bonnie on 09 June 2021

Over the past two decades, Wangechi Mutu has created chimerical images (paintings and sculptures) of powerful female characters, hybrid beings, and fantastical landscapes. With a rare understanding of the power and need for new mythologies—the productive friction of opposites beyond simple binaries and stereotypes—Mutu breaches common distinctions among human, animal, plant, and machine. She moves between cultural traditions to challenge colonialist, racist, and sexist worldviews with her visionary projection of an alternate universe informed by Afrofuturism, post-humanism, and feminism. Mutu’s exhibition aims to spur “a purposeful examination of art histories, mythologies, and the techniques of archiving and remembering.”

Please register on Zoom:

https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZwtf-GhrT8sE9O8xFV7rTsC_B42BV1AtY4p

This exhibition is currently at the Legion of Honor through November 7th.