Article relating to an individual, 1995
Published by: Frieze Magazine
Year published: 1995
Unpaginated.

Original article from magazine/Frieze: Contemporary Art and Culture, Issue 25 November - December 1995/p.38 - 41/article relating to Yinka Shonibare

Title: Art that is ethnic in inverted commas
Subtitle: Kobena Mercer on Yinka Shonibare
Author: Kobena Mercer

Article contains a number of colour reproductions of installations by Yinka Shonibare - Double Dutch, (1994) Installation view, Sun, Sea and Sand (1995) Mixed media, How Does a Girl Like You, Get to be a Girl Like You? (1995) Installation of three costumes of wax print cotton textiles, Tailored by Sian Lewis. Invitation card from Double Dutch (1994). From the article: “Damned if you do and damned if you don’t; black artists are often bedevilled by expectations that there must be biographical associations in the art. “What I“ve noticed with a lot of black artists is that even if you do not put yourself in that box, other people will,“ he adds, and indeed some English critics have come away from Shonibare’s work feeling that it is not quite African enough. Informed by the late 80’s debates around Rasheed Araeen, Sonia Boyce, Keith Piper, and other black British artists, Shonibare refuses to be an otherness-machine.”