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Wangechi Mutu, Mask
 
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TITLE:  Mask
ARTIST:  Wangechi Mutu
WORK DATE:  2006
PERIOD:  21st century
CATEGORY:  Mixed Media
MATERIALS:  Mixed media collage
SIZE:  16.5 x 12.7 cm
REGION:  Kenyan
STYLE:  Contemporary
PRICE:  Not for Sale
GALLERY:  Saatchi Gallery  +44 (0)20 7811 3070  Send Email
DESCRIPTION:  Wangechi Mutu’s Mask draws provocative comparison between archaeology and sexual fetishism. Pasted over the photo of a museum relic, her saucy model becomes a temptress of caricatured exotica. Encasing the woman’s body and face in a cut out of a voodoo sculpture, Mutu envelops her cover girl as a product of typecast desire and roleplay: warrior-princess, s&m freak, chastity-belted virgin. Overlapping the controversial facets of cultural association, Mutu’s figure beacons as a subversive dominatrix, shrewdly co-opting the rules of hierarchy, power, and manipulation.

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