The Nigerian-British artist Yinka Shonibare has made a whole fascinating series of race/class remix sculptures featuring mannequins of 18th-century European dandies dressed in period clothing cut from “African” Dutch-wax fabrics (made in Manchester and the Netherlands, purchased by the artist in Brixton Market, London). He’s currently got a big exhibition up at the Brooklyn Museum. 
“Man on Flying Machine” (2008), by Yinka Shonibare, James Cohan Gallery :: via Daily Serving
Jul 7, 2009, updated Apr 8, 2025