The title of the exhibition, Ndoro Na Miti, comes from the Gikuyu words for mud and trees. In this work Mutu deals with representation of both Eastern and Western traditions by creating an unconventional representation of folklore and the natural world based in East African culture, assumed to be mainly from Kenya, where the artist was born. Mutu turns the space into an environment filled with her amorphous forms seemingly made of mud and trees, as well as representational bronze cast sculptures. One of these, shown above, depicts a nguva, a water woman of East African folklore, clearly reminiscent of many myths from many cultures. In contemplating identity, Mutu places grey blankets for seating around the installation to invite the viewer "to enter a place and re-think themselves."
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