Artwork: Yinka Shonibare, Butterfly Kid (boy) IV, 2019
Love this—Yinka Shonibare’s mixed media installation, Butterfly Kid (boy) IV 2019.
British-Nigerian artist Shonibare’s work deals with issues of race, migration, post-colonialism, globalisation, and often features iconic Western art references with an ironic and playful twist. The Butterfly Kids series was inspired by environmental issues, and suggests notions of escape, endangerment, collapse, and extinction, yet also, it alludes to liberation, beauty, freedom and hope.
And perhaps that kids, in their efforts, will and knowledge, will be the creators, activists and leaders of a new world.
I loved it so much—I wrote an art story about it. Check it out.