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Entitled \u003cem\u003eWaterSpirit washed Pelican\u003c\/em\u003e, the limited edition of only 60 prints features layered lithography, collage, and mica embellishments, adding dimension and depth to a nuanced, lyrical, and fantastical composition characteristic of Mutu’s singular style. Each print comes with a signed and numbered copy of Phaidon’s 2023 monograph \u003cem\u003e Wangechi Mutu\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWangechi Mutu's remarkable body of work touches on such issues as sexuality, ecology, politics, and the rhythms and chaos that govern the world. Her boldly imaginative paintings, sculptures, and collages, often enriched with culturally-charged materials including tea, synthetic hair, Kenyan soil, feathers, and sand, interweave fact with fiction, generating a unique form of myth-making that sets her apart from classical history or popular culture. \u003cem\u003eWaterSpirit washed Pelican\u003c\/em\u003e employs a found image from a pre-existing pelican illustration, which becomes transformed by Mutu’s ingenious interventions.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Working with older prints and found materials is a kind of archaeography, a rediscovery, and re-naming of an image. It's my way to conjure up something from the past that can return to tell me something or remind me what I've forgotten.” —Wangechi Mutu\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMutu’s works are currently featured in the group show \u003cem\u003eA Gateway to Possible Worlds: Art \u0026amp; Science-fiction\u003c\/em\u003e at Centre Pompidou-Metz, Paris, France, until April 2023. 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Many of Hodges’ sculptures are forged from humble, even overlooked materials that are transformed through his touch, conjuring both memory and imagination. A gesture of inclusivity, \u003cem\u003erearranged for Bill\u003c\/em\u003e relies upon participation; collectors are invited to build the work themselves by following the artist’s simple instructions and bending the book’s unique photograph pages to realize the final piece.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003erearranged for Bill\u003c\/em\u003e revisits an earlier work completed in 1996, entitled \u003cem\u003eArranged\u003c\/em\u003e, which also combined random still lives of found flower images folded into a freestanding object. 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