Wangechi Mutu : intertwined / curators: Margot Norton, Allen and Lola Goldring senior curator, and Vivian Crockett, curator, with Ian Wallace, curatorial assistant ; editor: Sarah Stephenson.
Catalog of an exhibition held at New Museum, New York, USA, March 2 - June 4, 2023--Colophon. Includes bibliographical references.
Contents:
Contributor biographies. Tina Campt -- Artist's acknowledgments / Wangechi Mutu -- Bound, fused, woven, tied / Wangechi Mutu with Vivian Crockett and Margot Norton -- Plates -- The rock and roll resonance of Wangechi Mutu's exquisite disturbance / Maureen Mahon -- These assemblages : an invocation / Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor -- Plates -- Artist roundtable / a conversation with Firelei Baez, Kandis Williams, and Kiyan Williams moderated by Nana Adusei-Poku -- Fragmented wholes : Wangechi Mutu's lexicon of broken things / Tina Campt -- Plates -- Works in the exhibition -- Artist biography -- Contributor biographies.
Summary:
"Wangechi Mutu's multidisciplinary practice grapples with contemporary realities while proffering new models for a radically changed future informed by feminism, Afrofuturism, and interspecies symbiosis. Her work addresses some of today's most critical questions concerning historical violence and its impact on women, together with our inextricable ties toward one another, our ecosystems, and other life forms. Accompanying a major solo exhibition at the New Museum opening in February 2023, this expansive survey will trace the entirety of Mutu's influential career chronologically, from early sculptural works of the late 1990s to her collage works of the early 2000s and more recent video works, large-scale sculptures, and site-specific interventions. This monograph provides the opportunity to see thematic through-lines and progressions across the entire arc of Mutu's career to date. Her sculptures inaugurated the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Facade Project, and her work is in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art, New York, and Tate Modern, London, among other major institutions." -- Provided by publisher.
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