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Wangechi MutuPublished On
2019-03-08Page Range
pp. 71-78Print Length
7 pages
6. Making Through Motion
- Wangechi Mutu (author)
Chapter of: Women and Migration: Responses in Art and History(pp. 71–78)
In ‘Making Through Motion, Art Practice Manifesto’, Kenyan/US artist Wangechi Mutu explores how memory and metaphor have shaped her artistic practice. Mutu tells a deeply personal story of her life and connects her own experience of migration with that of three generations of women in her family, while drawing out themes of empowerment and independence.