Intertwined. Wangechi Mutu's artworks between Black Mediterranean and Black Atlantic

Wangechi Mutu's sculptures exemplify the need to re-define modernity while considering post-colonial conditions. The epistemic violence of modernity, in its manifestations of orientalism, colonialism, and imperialism, transformed the Mediterranean into a topographical zone of heterotopic alterity.

With the inclusion of theoretical approaches such as the "Black Atlantic" and "Black Mediterranean", history and social reality can be rethought using the arts and discussed anew in terms of global interdependencies. The theoretical concept of the "Black Atlantic" by Paul Gilroy should be based on the artistic works by Wangechi Mutu will be discussed. Alessandra Di Maio's concept of the “Black Mediterranean” offers a discursive space to discuss the transnational relationality between Europe and Africa and the importance of the African diaspora in the Mediterranean region on the basis of the artistic works. Based on the methodological approach of the 'Networks of Practice' by Okwui Enwezor and Chika Okeke-Agulu, a common theoretical context is to be developed for a redefinition of modernity.