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This sculpture emerged from an underwater Afrofuturist world.
Artist Wangechi Mutu reshapes narratives of womanhood, playing with the female form with divine female warriors, goddesses, and supernatural creatures.
Mutu’s “MamaRay” is an otherworldly female guardian deity — her body references aquatic creatures with broad cape-like wings that stretch from the top of the figure’s head to its serpentine tail.
“I create as a way of reinvigorating myself by replacing and reworking images and ideas that never fully represented me and the women and the people I was born from and who made me.” — Wangechi Mutu
Meet “MamaRay” in our Sculpture Garden, on view now.
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Wangechi Mutu. “MamaRay.” 2020. Committee on Painting and Sculpture Funds and gift of Abby Aldrich Rockefeller and Frances Archipenko Gray (both by exchange)
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