Brooklyn Museum, 200 Eastern Parkway
Brooklyn, New York, United States
26 June – 20 September 2009
This exhibition is a major midcareer survey of work by the UK-based Nigerian artist Yinka Shonibare MBE.
Shonibare’s artwork explores contemporary African identity and its relationship to European colonialism through painting, sculpture, installation, and moving image.
Shonibare is best known for his work with visual symbols, especially the richly patterned Dutch wax fabric produced in Europe for a West African market that he uses in a wide range of applications.
His tableaux of headless mannequins costumed in this fabric evoke themes of history and its legacy for future generations.
Through these works he explores the complex web of interactions, both economic and racial, that reveal inequalities between the dominant and colonized cultures of Europe, Asia, and Africa.
There will also be a site-specific installation created for this presentation featuring children titled Mother and Father Worked Hard So I Can Play that will be on view in several of the Museum’s period rooms.
Yinka Shonibare MBE is organized and toured by the Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia.
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