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Mother Africa, Father Time

Meghan Edwards -- Interior Design, 5/1/2009 12:00:00 AM

Squadrons of headless fiberglass mannequins invade New York's Brooklyn Museum on June 26. They're part of "Yinka Shonibare MBE," which features sculpture, painting, photography, and film by a London-based Nigerian whose work tackles themes of contemporary African identity and the interactions between dominant and colonized cultures. One installation, Mother and Father Worked Hard So I Can Play, is a series of child-size figures dressed in Victorian costumes and hidden throughout the museum's period rooms.

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  love his use of african fabric, very expressive.
  check out his website

  
  

  
  

  bisi bordley - 2009-06-16 08:46:00 EDT
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