Jan. 9, 2010 - Apr. 4, 2010
Dressed Like Queens, video installation, 21:35 min., 2003
In My House, video installation, 13 min., 2006
Artist Ingrid Mwangi uses her body to make a political statement, creating work that is innovative, visually striking and often shocking.
She spent the first 15 years of her life in Kenya and has been living in Germany ever since. Using photography, performance, sound, installation and video, Mwangi created a body of work that questions both social and political conventions.
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Recently Mwangi took her explorations of identity to the next level and merged her artistic identity with that of her husband, Robert Hutter. They now share the same name and she divides her time between Ludwigshafen am Rhein in Germany and Nairobi, Kenya.
The artist has been prolific in her work since 1998, making a political statement using her body to confront issues of what she has called a “hyphenated” identity. Over the past decade Ingrid Mwangi Robert Hutter have tackled issues such as race, sex and relationships and are extremely important to the development and understanding of contemporary Africa.
Ingrid Mwangi Robert Hutter
Born 1970, Nairobi Ludwigshafen
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