Love reading about all the creative ways that Yinka Shonibare’s works are being used and installed around the world. I first saw his work as part of the Turner Prize exhibition at Tate Britain in 2004.
It was part costume display, part choreographed dance, and I adored it.
My next “run in” with Shonibare work was at the National Gallery where he had two smaller installations after the re-opening of the main entrance that dealt his classic themes of colonialism and bi-cultural imagery.
THEN, Wellesley’s Davis Museum purchased one of his fantastic works for our permanent collection.
To hear that Shonibare’s work is being shown in situ with the Brooklyn Art Museum’s period rooms is extremely exciting. From a museum’s stand point it probably increases foot traffic to some of the less appreciated rooms and also brings a heightened experience of Shonibare’s work than if it were just shown in a more “white cube” space.
Win - win.
8 months ago