Wangechi Mutu, a Kenyan-American artist, created history at the Storm King Art Center in New York.
She has been allocated an important spot in the sculpture park known as Museum Hill to display her work.
According to the Art Newspaper, Mutu is displaying eight large-scale bronze sculptures.
They include the anthropomorphic Crocodylus, which resembles a female figure and a crocodile and looks to be surveying the park.
Mutu is also displaying the Fountain in Two Canoe, which displays two individuals interacting with the natural world.
The sculptures are surrounded by maple trees and mix various home things into a pyramidal pile.
She wants to highlight the difference in the amount of trees planted in affluent and impoverished communities.
Mutu has more work on Storm King’s Museum Hill, which includes five massive bronze baskets.
According to the New York Times, they are called Nyoka and appear to be full of coiled snakes.
She also has a pair of tortoises named Kobe and a basket called Nywele that holds a mound of plaited hair.
“It’s frightening how dangerously close we are to losing everything on earth. We are still doing the most absurd things. I can’t believe a murder in Buffalo obliterated 10 lives,” Mutu said in an interview with New York Times.
She added;
“White supremacy, the climate emergency, the war in Ukraine we haven’t learnt anything. Or maybe everything we have learnt about knowledge sharing, humanity and our connection to the world is somehow no longer important. If we continue to destroy nature, it will stop feeding us
Mutu has a successful profession in New York, but she has made it a point to build a studio in Nairobi.
She resides between Nairobi and Brooklyn and has captivated the city’s art fans with her work.
Mutu is a Yale University graduate, and her work has been displayed around the world.
Her major retrospective opened in the Nasher Museum of Art in North Carolina, USA, in 2013.
