Join us for a guided tour of the incredible work of multidisciplinary artist Wangechi Mutu in Intertwined, an exhibition spanning her twenty-five year career. Our tour will be led by New Museum Teaching Artist Yasmeen Abdallah.
We can't wait to kick it with y'all!
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Representing the full breadth of her practice, the presentation will encompass painting, collage, drawing, sculpture, film, and performance. Mutu first gained acclaim for her collage-based practice exploring camouflage, transformation, and mutation. She extends these strategies to her work across various media, developing hybrid, fantastical forms that fuse mythical and folkloric narratives with layered sociohistorical references. “Wangechi Mutu: Intertwined” will trace connections between recent developments in the artist’s sculptural practice and her decades-long exploration of the legacies of colonialism, globalization, and African and diasporic cultural traditions. At once culturally specific and transnational in scope, Mutu’s work grapples with contemporary realities, while proffering new models for a radically changed future informed by feminism, Afrofuturism, and interspecies symbiosis.
- New Museum Website
Many thanks to our collective kin over at New Inc. who helped organize our tour, making it possible for us to gain entry to the institution at a discounted rate! If you are financially equipped to pay full price for museum entry, please consider donating the difference (or more!) to dsgnrswrkshp so we may continue our mission and programming for the 2023 year.
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