On display at the Legion of Honor Museum.
Mama Ray, 2020 Bronze "Part animal, part human, part battleship, Mama Ray is an ascending figure that represents women and their divine and resurgent feminine power..."
"To disrupt the isolation of Auguste Rodin's iconic statue The Thinker, Mutu has placed two bronze Shavasana figures at is base. These sculptures decry the systemic violence against Black bodies, and reveal the unacknowledged subtext that undergirds the stories in Western society and its art and culture."
Wangechi Mutu Water Woman, 2017 " Inspired by her deep love and respect for oceans and seas -- the vast bodies of water from which all living organisms are believed to have originally evolved -- Water Woman pays homage to the folkloric pantheon of water spirits present in many world cultures, including those of Wangechi Mutu's native Africa."
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