Wangechi Mutu - Contemporary Artists

Histology of the Different Classes of Uterine Tumours

Wangechi Mutu, Histology of the Different Classes of Uterine Tumours      The Saatchi Gallery
 

Wangechi Mutu

Histology of the Different Classes of Uterine Tumors

2004, Glitter, ink, collage on found extremely old fragile medical illustration paper

46 x 31cm

In Histology of Different Classes of Uterine Tumors, Wangechi Mutu readily confuses epidemiology with anthropological classification. Mutu satirically identifies her ‘disease’ as a sub/post-human monster, an equally primitive and prophetically alien species. Repulsive and ludicrous, Mutu’s figure is also controversially attractive: its fur face and stardust afro an epitome of funkadelic chic. Histology… embodies a notion of identity crisis, where origination and ownership of cultural signifiers becomes an unsettling and disputed terrain.

 
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