Art Institute - Project a Black Planet: The Art and Culture of Panafrica. Artist Talk with Wangechi Mutu
thursday, march 6, 2025
Continue celebrating Black History Month in early March with ABPA at the Art Institute! Join us for the Institute's latest exhibition Project a Black Planet: The Art and Culture of Panafrica. The exhibition gathers objects, spanning the 1920s to the present, made by artists scross four continents. Panafrica, the promised land named in the exhibition title, is presented as a conceptual place where arguments about decolonization, solidarity, and freedom are advanced and negotiated with the aim of an emancipatory future.
The Artist Talk with Wangechi Mutu will focus on Tree Woman, a work featured as part of the exhibition.
“Internationally renowned for her sculptures, paintings, films, installations, and collages, Wangechi Mutu’s practice examines the very idea of human representation—both how we see and evoke what we believe we are, and how we see and evoke those we understand as outside of ourselves. Her experiments rendering hybrid female creatures and vivid dystopian dreamscapes investigate how our value systems, artistic or otherwise, obscure or uplift our images and reflections.”
Wangechi Mutu (b. 1972) is a Kenyan American artist. Mutu has participated in several major solo exhibitions in institutions worldwide, most recently, Wangechi Mutu: Intertwined at both the New Museum and New Orleans Museum of Art; Thinking Historically in the Present at the Sharjah Biennial; Wangechi Mutu at Storm King Art Center; The Façade Commission: Wangechi Mutu, The NewOnes, will free Us at the Metropolitan Museum Art; and Wangechi Mutu: I Am Speaking, Are You Listening? at the Legion of Honor Museum.
Join us at the Art Institute and the Artist Talk, then let’s meet up for dinner (self-pay) at Italian restaurant
Acanto.
The Art Institute is offering “free winter weekdays” for Illinois residents Mondays, Thursdays and Fridays through March 14th. Art Institute tickets can be reserved here.
Thursday, March 6, 2025
6:00-7:00 pm (talk)
The Art Institute of Chicago
111 S Michigan Avenue
Chicago, IL 60603
Acanto Italian Restaurant
7:15pm (after artist talk)
18 S Michigan Ave
Chicago, IL 60603
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