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Beneath lies the Power, 2014.
Grotesque and seductive, Wangechi Mutu’s art embraces everything from Tina Turner and cyborgs to rotten milk and war crimes. As her new show opens, the artist talks to Teju Cole about skinning snakes – and seeing mermaids
Wangechi Mutu: Nguva na Nyoka is at Victoria Miro gallery, London N1, from 14 October to 19 December 
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How much does the cash-drunk New York art industry care about racism, neocolonialism, wanton consumption, persistent sexism, environmental spoilage or any other global realities? Next to not at all. How much does the same industry care about big, superbly made objects that pleasure the eye? Hugely.
For the past decade and a half, the artist Wangechi Mutu has been combining both elements — unpopular content and desirable form — in a series of magnetic, salon-size figurative collages that are as politically nuanced as they are visually ravishing. Since Ms. Mutu first started to exhibit in the late 1990s, the work has grown more complex, detailed and beautiful by the year. And we’re seeing it at what has to be some kind of peak moment in the pithy traveling survey called “Wangechi Mutu: A Fantastic Journey” at the Brooklyn Museum.
Wangechi Mutu: A Fantastic Journey Brooklyn Museum, New York October 11, 2013–March 9, 2014
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"I juxtapose and slice up reality and fiction quite easily," explained Kenya-born artist Wangechi Mutu in an interview with the Art Newspaper. "I’m aware that it is up for grabs and a powerful tool to explain how we take control." Splicing and dicing is a talent Mutu has perfected in her studio in New York City. Her signature collages are filled with tantalizing mixtures of erotica, high fashion, and nature imagery, delicately positioned into beautiful -- sometimes violent -- works on paper. In October, the artist's works are heading to the Brooklyn Museum for an exhibit titled "A Fantastic Journey." Including collages, drawings, sculptures and video
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Wangechi Mutu’s staggering collages transform the female body, making extensions that are sometimes human, animal, machine, and monster. Cut from magazines, found materials, and painted imagery, Mutu’s collaged creatures absorb the weight of a diverse sampling of both empowering and derogatory sources. Mutu also collaborated with musician Santigold in her first-ever animated video, The End of Eating Everything, an Afro-futuristic film collage.
“A Fantastic Journey” will be at The Brooklyn Museum through March 9, 2014.
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"Culled from old medical illustrations and National Geographic, pornographic, motorcycle, and fashion magazine clippings, Wangechi Mutu’s writhing female figures have a dangerous beauty to them, one that’s grotesque and alluring all at once. A traveling exhibition — recently closed at Duke’s Nasher Museum of Art and opening in October at the Brooklyn Museum — surveys her experimentation with history, gender, and race since the mid-1990s."
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