In September 2023 at the musée du quai Branly – Jacques Chirac in Paris, Kehinde Wiley unveiled exclusively a series of portraits of African heads of state – an exploratory project around the representation of power on which the painter has been working confidentially since 2012.
| Publication | Kehinde Wiley – A Maze of Power |
|---|---|
| Years | 2024 |
| Editor | TEMPLON | Musée du quai Branly - Jacques Chirac |
| Texts | Sarah Ligner |
| ISBN | 978-2-917515-56-3 |
| Pages | 80 |
| Rate | 28 € TTC |
| Cover | Portrait of Olusegun Obasanjo, former President of Nigeria, 2023, detail |
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“A Maze of Power superimposes several perspectives — that of European painting, that of the sitters, that of the painter and that of the viewer — in order to decipher absent speech and offer a commentary amid the noise and fury of African presidencies, imagined or otherwise […] The painter represents the res publica, the state and its figureheads; heads and former heads of state. The portrait gives them an incarnation.” — Mamadou Diouf
Kehinde Wiley unveils an exclusive series of portraits of African heads of state. A project exploring the staging of power, on which the artist has been working confidentially since 2012.
