Description

The New Museum is presenting is a major retrospective exhibition of work by Kenyan-born American Wangechi Mutu (b. 1972), spanning the artist’s early sculptures and reputation-making collage-based works of the early 2000s, to her more recent large-scale bronzes and powerful videos. The exhibition’s title, “Intertwined,” derives from a 2003 work by Mutu referencing the themes of transformation and hybridity that inform the subjects and forms of her art. Both culturally specific and transnational in scope, Mutu’s work grapples with contemporary realities and offers new models for a radically changed future informed by feminism, Afrofuturism, and interspecies symbiosis. The exhibition will explore the prescient nature of Mutu’s work in its critical address of historical violence and its impact on women, and humanity’s ties to one another, our ecosystems, and other life forms.