"Words are just a way we communicate. Images are a way we communicate. And I couldn't figure out why they had to be in different baskets."
"La Méduse" (2008)
"La Méduse," 2008
Wood, foam, Plexiglas, Dutch wax printed cotton, and acrylic paint, 83 1/2 x 66 x 54 inches
Photo by Jason Mandella
© Yinka Shonibare MBE
Courtesy James Cohan Gallery, New York and Stephen Friedman Gallery, London
Wood, foam, Plexiglas, Dutch wax printed cotton, and acrylic paint, 83 1/2 x 66 x 54 inches
Photo by Jason Mandella
© Yinka Shonibare MBE
Courtesy James Cohan Gallery, New York and Stephen Friedman Gallery, London
"I always want to refer to the fact that my work is artificial; it is artifice. It is art, made as art; it is not unmediated reality. It is mediated reality through form, and form is artifice. What I really like in a work of art is for the formal strategy to be part of the meaning of the work."
-Yinka Shonibare MBE
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