This series of pieces plays with the notion of hybridity and the communication between origins of cultural divisions in Eastern and Western society, while simultaneously integrating a notion of one new relationship built within this communication. In this piece above, the artist Mutu communicates the relationship between mud and earth to that of a more traditional Eastern civilization. However this "traditional" work is designed to be presented in the western museum case, carefully presented on pedestals and surrounded by sterility from the blank walls of the gallery. This contradiction is intentional, focusing on the removal of one cultural to be redesigned for the purpose of another's fetishization and fascinations.
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