Wangechi mutu

"Over the past two decades, Wangechi Mutu has created chimerical constellations of powerful female characters, hybrid beings, and fantastical landscapes. With a rare understanding of the need for powerful new mythologies beyond simple binaries and stereotypes, Mutu breaches common distinctions between human, animal, plant, and machine. At once seductive and threatening, her figures and environments take the viewer on journeys of material, psychological, and socio-political transformation. An artist who calls both Nairobi and New York City home, she moves voraciously between cultural traditions to challenge colonialist, racist, and sexist world views with her visionary projection of an alternate universe informed by Afrofuturism, Posthumanism, and Feminism. This presentation of Mutu's work-mounted at the Legion of Honor, a museum designed in the neoclassical style and built to showcase European art from antiquity through Impressionism-merges the histories, conventions, and traditions of her African origins and her Western education. The dazzling catalogue that will accompany this presentation will showcase Mutu's new work on view at the Legion, along with a greater selection from her oeuvre as it has grown in the time since her groundbreaking exhibition at the Nasher Museum of Art in 2013"--