Wangechi Mutu »
The End of eating Everything
Exhibition: 20 Jul – 15 Oct 2017
Des Moines Art Center
4700 Grand Avenue
IA 50312-2099 Des Moines
+1-515-2774405
Tue, Wed, Fri 11-16, Thu 11-21, Sat 10-16, Sun 12-16
As part of the Single-channel series Journeys into Peripheral Worlds, the Art Center presents Kenyan artist Wangechi Mutu's The End of eating Everything (2013). Mutu is a multi-media artist, perhaps best known for her fantastical collages that disrupt Western narratives about the black female body. The artist states, The End of eating Everything comes "out of the world of my collages…this film is a slice of my own type of magic realism, as a real and tragic space caught in time. " Starring musician Santigold as a creature with eyes of an Egyptian goddess and hair like Medusa, the video follows the protagonist's quest for sustenance in the form of a flock of crows. As the journey continues, this sci-fi story takes a turn that ultimately condemns the environmental impact of excessive consumption.