Wangechi Mutu’s bronze figures offer an alternative presence at the Met

THE STORY, IN BRIEF

Laura Raicovich reflects on The NewOnes, will free Us, Wangechi Mutu’s four bronze figures installed in the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s façade. She reads their seated poses, coiled garments and reflective surfaces as a challenge to the building’s monumental authority and inherited European conventions. The essay connects the sculptures with questions of colonial history, Black presence and forms of beauty that dominant cultural narratives have excluded.

Summarised from Hyperallergic · Laura Raicovich. AFROSCOPE Daily has not independently reported this story.