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SCAD-Atlanta’s ACA Gallery hosts emerging artist Wangechi Mutu’s first solo exhibition in Atlanta
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5/9/2007  ATLANTA – The Savannah College of Art and Design-Atlanta is proud to present “The Cinderella Curse,” the first solo exhibition by Kenya-born, New York-based artist Wangechi Mutu in Atlanta at the ACA Gallery of SCAD, 1280 Peachtree St. NE, May 9 – June 24. An opening reception will be held May 9, 6-8 p.m. Mutu also will give a talk on May 15, 7 p.m., at ACA Gallery of SCAD. Mutu’s solo exhibition debut in Atlanta marks a return to the themes of consumption and excess as they play out in the neglect and suffering imposed on the character of Cinderella. In “The Cinderella Curse,” Mutu explores the inhumane conditions that often accompany women’s labor in a parody of the Cinderella story. This site-specific installation comprises of a series of mixed-media collages, for which Mutu is best known, that extend beyond their surfaces onto the mottled walls of the gallery, endless stacks of clothing and a video of Mutu herself perpetually cleaning earth. “The Cinderella Curse” is “a poetic reflection on those who invisibly toil, churn and create: migrant laborers and night workers that clean, farm, feed, heal, build and bury bodies of the dead,” said Mutu. “The story of Cinderella is itself a trap, a curse with somewhat unresolved redemption, a love story with well-contrived circumstances conveniently placed 'fin'. The Cinderella story is our shared Curse.” Born in Nairobi, Kenya, Mutu earned an M.F.A. degree from Yale in 2000 and a B.F.A. at Cooper Union College. She has had solo exhibitions at institutions including the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Miami Art Museum and ArtPace in San Antonio. Mutu’s work is part of the permanent collections of The Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art, The Whitney Museum of American Art in New York, The Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago and The Saatchi Gallery in London. Mutu has been featured in publications such as Vogue, Interview Magazine, The New York Times, Vanity Fair, Art Review and The New Yorker.
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