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The End of carrying All

© 2015 Wangechi Mutu

The End of carrying All
The End of carrying All
ArtistKenyan, born 1972
CultureKenyan
Titles
  • The End of carrying All
Date2015
MediumThree-channel video, edition 1/3
Dimensions10 minutes
Credit LineMuseum purchase funded by contemporary@mfah 2016
Object number2016.80
Not on view

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ProvenanceThe artist; [Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York, 2015]; purchased by MFAH, 2016.
Exhibition History"All The World’s Futures, 56th International Art Exhibition," Venice Biennale, May 9–November 22, 2015.

"Wangechi Mutu: The End of Carrying All," Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, November 9–December 11, 2016.

"On Common Ground," Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, October 21, 2017–January 14, 2018.

"A Beautiful Struggle: Black Feminist Futurism," Urban Institute for Contemporary Arts, Grand Rapids, Michigan, February 21–August 15, 2020.
Published References Wangechi Mutu, “Statement,” ArtNEWS 114 (June 2015): 61. Holland Cotter, “Wangechi Mutu: A Window, Not a Mirror,” The New York Times (October 11, 2013). Isolde Brielmaier, “Wangechi Mutu: A Return to Beginnings,” Art & Australia (September 2013): 104-111. Stephanie Cash, “Wangechi Mutu: Terrible Beauty,” Art in America 98, no. 5 (May 2010): 120-129. Robert Enright, “Resonant Surgeries: The Collaged World of Wangechi Mutu, Interview,” Border Crossings 27, no. 1 (February 2008): 28-46.

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