Hide 'n' Seek, Kill or Speak

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.