User:Kar51170/Wangechi Mutu

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In the early years of career, Mutu used collage merely as a way to plan and sketch ideas for her sculptures and performances. Now those same collages range from the size of an index card to a human and are prominent to her collection of works.

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A common approach in Mutu's collages is that she often incorporates themes of glamour and appeal and mix it with horror, violence, and dismemberment.

Yo Mama (2003)
A diptych that pays homage to Funmilayo Anikulapo-Kuti, pioneering feminist and mother of popular Afrobeat musician, Fela Kuti. To recognize her activism for women's rights and her fight against mutilation of the female body, Mutu depicts Kuti as Eve form the Bible, throwing the headless body of the serpent creature that tempted her across her shoulder, while her high heeled boot punctures the decapitated head.

Sketchbook Drawing (2011-12)
As a visual artist, Mutu takes inspiration from fashion and travel magazines, pornography, ethnography, and mechanics. In 2013, at the Brooklyn Museum in New York, Mutu showed her sketchbook drawings for the first time ever in her retrospective exhibit. The books consisted of strangely attractive, yet grotesque human figures fused with animals, plants, or machines.