"I use a lot of repetition. And it becomes a filmic way of talking because as you put the same image after the other, even though it’s the exact identical image, everyone sees something changing from one image to the next."
"Colonel Tarleton and Mrs Oswald Shooting," detail (2007)
"Colonel Tarleton and Mrs Oswald Shooting," detail, 2007
Two life-size mannequins, Dutch was printed cotton, guns, and mixed media, dimensions variable; Colonel Tarleton on plinth: 153 1/5 x 75 3/5 x 59 4/5 inches overall, Mrs Oswald on plinth: 154 7/10 x 75 3/5 x 69 4/5 inches overall
Photo by Stephen White
© Yinka Shonibare MBE
Courtesy James Cohan Gallery, New York and Stephen Friedman Gallery, London
Two life-size mannequins, Dutch was printed cotton, guns, and mixed media, dimensions variable; Colonel Tarleton on plinth: 153 1/5 x 75 3/5 x 59 4/5 inches overall, Mrs Oswald on plinth: 154 7/10 x 75 3/5 x 69 4/5 inches overall
Photo by Stephen White
© Yinka Shonibare MBE
Courtesy James Cohan Gallery, New York and Stephen Friedman Gallery, London
"You grow up with this idealistic idea of wanting to change the world, realizing later on that artworks that look too much like propaganda scare people and people just become defensive. So I realized that the strategy would have to change."
-Yinka Shonibare MBE
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