Hide 'n' Seek, Kill or Speak, 2004
- Artist
Wangechi Mutu
- Title
Hide 'n' Seek, Kill or Speak
- Date
2004
- Medium
Paint, ink, collage, and mixed media on Mylar
- Dimensions
48 x 42 in. (121.9 x 106.7 cm) Frame: 54 x 47 1/2 x 2 1/4 in. (137.2 x 120.7 x 5.7 cm)
- Credit line
The Studio Museum in Harlem; Museum purchase made possible by a gift from Jeanne Greenberg Rohatyn
- Object Number
2004.13.3
Here, the figure’s sensuous, ink-splattered skin translates as alternately twinkling stars or blooming sores. Dynamic and disjointed, she is constructed from cut-outs sourced from pornography, fashion, car, and motorcycle magazines as well as ethnographic periodicals such as National Geographic. Wangechi Mutu ruptures the mainstream standards of beauty that these publications present to be fetishized and adored. Instead, she offers unresolved, dismembered bodies that rebel against stereotypical images of African women and those of the Global South.
Hide 'n' Seek, Kill or Speak, 2004
- Artist
Wangechi Mutu
- Title
Hide 'n' Seek, Kill or Speak
- Date
2004
- Medium
Paint, ink, collage, and mixed media on Mylar
- Dimensions
48 x 42 in. (121.9 x 106.7 cm) Frame: 54 x 47 1/2 x 2 1/4 in. (137.2 x 120.7 x 5.7 cm)
- Credit line
The Studio Museum in Harlem; Museum purchase made possible by a gift from Jeanne Greenberg Rohatyn
- Object Number
2004.13.3
Here, the figure’s sensuous, ink-splattered skin translates as alternately twinkling stars or blooming sores. Dynamic and disjointed, she is constructed from cut-outs sourced from pornography, fashion, car, and motorcycle magazines as well as ethnographic periodicals such as National Geographic. Wangechi Mutu ruptures the mainstream standards of beauty that these publications present to be fetishized and adored. Instead, she offers unresolved, dismembered bodies that rebel against stereotypical images of African women and those of the Global South.