Kehinde Wiley: A maze of power
Kehinde Wiley's solo exhibition A maze of power travels to the Mohammed VI Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art.
The exhibition is composed of a series of 11 portraits depicting African heads of state—an exploratory and ongoing project examining the staging of power, on which Wiley has been working confidentially since 2012.
Wiley began considering the concept of presidential leadership at Barak Obama's election in 2008. He conceptualised his presidential project in 2012, and spent the next decade travelling Africa meeting and painting the heads of state. Exploring the history of aristocratic, royal and military portraiture in 17th - 18th and 19th-century Europe, Wiley created a composition that illustrates each leader's singular view of what it means to be a contemporary African leader.
The show is touring from Musée du Quai Branly - Jacques Chirac.
