Being in Becoming

By MsRachel

Reclaiming. OR - Wangechi Mutu, you are AWESOME.

"A lot of motorbikes have been built to look like women, and to feel as if you were on a woman. So I think that's also what I've been trying to sort of do is take apart this machine and implant it into these bodies and sort of give the women a kind of strength that the machine supposedly represents for the man.

It's like they're taking it back and they become these cyborgs, these fierce female cyborgs. Who knows what they're going to do with that strength!

But for me it's my little way of giving back the women that power that's taken away, especially in the representations of women in these kinds of magazines because they really are the focal point and in a way that sexualizes the machines so men will buy more of them."

http://edition.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/africa/07/19/wangechi.mutu.artist/index.html?iref=allsearch

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