Double Dress Yinka Shonibare, A Nigerian/British Artist
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May 30, 2002-November 19, 2002Location: Nathan Cummings Building for Modern and Contemporary Art
Artist: Yinka Shonibare
Curator: Suzanne Landau
Media: Installations
The first mid-career survey exhibition of works by Yinka Shonibare, who interweaves metaphors from his two cultures — British and African — to create imaginative, life-size installations using bright ''African'' fabrics and photographs depicting iconic images of Victorian society which question the influence of ethnicity, class, and race on the formation of identity.