This exhibition features two videos by artist IngridMwangiRobertHutter, Neger (1999) and Cutting the Mask (2003). IngridMwangiRobertHutter is a Kenyan-born artist who and lives and works in Germany. She uses sound, photography, video, performance and installation that incorporates her body to explore identity and social and political conventions. About the use of her body, the artist writes:
"My body is the only thing that I own... I react, interpret and question the clichés and stereotypes with which I am faced... I use art to awaken consciences."

Like the two videos that will be shown at the Emerson Gallery, IngridMwangiRobertHutter's performances and videos often include hair—cutting hair, using hair as a mask, dreadlocked hair.  Critic Laurie Ann Farrell writes about IngridMwangiRobertHutter: "Working with video as an open medium of image and sound, Mwangi began to work with and alter images of her body as a means of collapsing oversimplified narratives of race, gender and sexuality....Mwangi's videos blend beautiful images with the edge of brutality embedded in racial stereotypes."

This exhibition is organized by Ian Berry, Consulting Director for the Emerson Gallery and Associate Director of Curatorial Affairs at Skidmore's Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery.

https://my.hamilton.edu/college/emerson_gallery/Exhibitions/IngridMwangiRobertHutter.html