Leading Image: “Le Noble Savage”, 2006. Ink and collage on Mylar. 233 x 137.2 cm.
Wangechi Mutu was born in June 1972 in Nairobi, Kenya. The Kenyan-born American visible artist is acknowledged for portray, sculpting, movie, and overall performance operate. She examined in Loreto Convent Msongari before signing up for United Planet University of Atlantic. She has considering the fact that proven her occupation in New York.
Wangechi has depicted herself as a feministic artist mainly because most of her get the job done entails violence meted on black women in culture. Mutu attempts to demonstrate how black women of all ages in culture have been subjected to serial harassment by users of culture. Mutu’s do the job looks fairly contradictory due to the fact she depicts a problematic culture and at the same is hopeful that modern society will alter how it treats girls.
