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ReviewJanuary 9, 2008Wangechi Mutu's titles reveal her primary themes: Cancer of the Uterus is a portrait created with paper — culled from medical journals, porno mags, and art books — juxtaposed with swirled ink and acrylics. For Yo.n.I — a revision of "yoni," the Sanskrit word for sacred female sexuality, and a phonetic approximation of "you and I" — the Kenyan artist fills three ground-floor rooms with her fantastical, mythical collages on X-ray paper and Mylar. One such piece, mixed-media work A Dragon Kiss Always Ends in Ashes, features a recumbent woman and a serpentine creature entwined in a pose both grotesque and sensual. Upstairs, in the installation Dutty Water, Mutu utilizes water from neighboring Regent's Canal, bare-bulb lighting, plastic tubing, and shoes to dramatic effect, highlighting the widespread global struggle to access clean drinking water. -LCD |
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