Wangechi Mutu - Contemporary Artists

Histology of the Different Classes of Uterine Tumours

Histology of the Different Classes of Uterine Tumours The Saatchi Gallery
 

Wangechi Mutu

Histology of the Different Classes of Uterine Tumours

2004
Glitter, ink, collage on found 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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