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The female form in each collage has been subjected to considerable deformation, an effect that suggests violence as well as exuberance. Mutu’s voluptuous, distended bodies are modeled on the Neolithic sculpture Venus of Willendorf as well as on Saartjie Baartman, an enslaved Khoikhoi woman from an area in present-day South Africa. From 1810 until her death in 1815, Baartman’s enslaver toured her throughout Europe, where she was subjected to exploitative, demeaning, and humiliating public display. Trained in both art and cultural anthropology, Mutu explores the fantasies and fears that attach themselves to women and people of color.","remarks":"MOD_09-12_WLA – Day 1 Cataloguing"},{"texttype":"Online","textpurpose":"Provenance","textentryhtml":"[Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Culver City, California], sold; to Princeton University Art Museum, 2008.","remarks":"as per invoice in curatorial file. 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