YINKA SHONIBARE CBE

Since the 1990s, the British-Nigerian artist Yinka Shonibare CBE has developed opulently executed sculptures and installations, colo rful collages, and theatrically staged photographs and films. The signature material in Yinka Shonibares multimedia artworks, so-ca lled African fabric, is a cipher. Originally produced in Manchester and intended for sale in Indonesia, the brightly colored fabric gained its name after British imperialists shifted their focus to colonial Africa. Featuring this product of both colonization and s elf-identi...[Llegir més]