Wangechi Mutu: The SeasSpirit

Victoria Miro is delighted to present an exhibition of new collage-paintings by Wangechi Mutu.

Wangechi Mutu engages in a distinctive form of mythmaking, often connecting the human body with the natural world. For her forthcoming exhibition, the artist returns to the subject of water, a theme she has explored throughout her practice, not only as a mythical realm but also as a fragile, symbiotic ecosystem.

In a new series of collage-paintings, Mutu conjures a cast of feminine water spirits — figures that are at once powerful, awe-inspiring and unsettling. Imagined as protectors, companions and guides, these aquatic beings can be understood as symbolic inhabitants of both the sea and the subconscious. Created with Venice in mind, this body of work resonates with the city’s enigmatic character — a place where land and water, history and myth, continually converge.

Image: Wangechi Mutu, Work in progress (detail) for The SeasSpirit
© Wangechi Mutu