Wangechi Mutu

Galerie Serge Ziegler, Zurich
Acquired by the present owner from the above

This work is in very good condition. There is evidence of a soft rippling to the paper. There are artist's pin holes at the top corners. There are scattered areas of faint adhesive residue, which is inherent to the artist's working method. Framed under Plexiglas, mounted on board.
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I use the body as a metaphor and as a focal point from which to engage people in the discussion of, What is your war mask and battle uniform? What is your persona when you leave and enter the world of structures? What do people expect of you? That's how the drawings came about. I took all of these psychological issues and my own personal stories and the stories of other women, and I manifested them as body injuries or mutilations or malformations or exaggerations or prostheses, as a way of talking about the need to extend, perforate, change, or shape-shift your body in order to exist. Wangechi Mutu (interview with Barbara Kruger, April 2007)