Wangechi Mutu This You Call Civilization

Wangechi Mutu's work boldly explores the contradictions of female and cultural identity, drawing the viewer into conversations about beauty, consumerism, colonialism, race, and gender. Her representations of the human form are disturbing and transfixing, at once utterly complex and strikingly direct.

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Education

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• Wangechi Mutu
• women's representation
• cultural migration
• global identity
• historical violence
• colonial legacies
• exoticism
• Art
• Art Gallery of Ontario
• AGO

[neikaplay]

thanks for this video.

[MorseMorgan]

Quite Inspirational

[VonJhonn]

What a discovery here! Beautiful, very compassionate and very moving work. A powerful example of what it means to be a true artist ( art being a direct form of communication from one soul to another..) And in Wagechi Mutu's case, the physical expression of a beautiful soul itself...