Marina Warner reviews Feminine Power: The Divine to the Demonic for The Guardian, featuring work by Wangechi Mutu

'She's a Giacometti-like female bust made of dark soil, charcoal, oyster shells, feathers, hide, china and hair. It's an alarming, secret-looking, numinous piece, and an example of the artist's call to each of us to create our own divinities.' – Marina Warner 

Wangechi Mutu's sculpture Grow the Tea, then Break the Cups is on view at the British Museum in Feminine Power: The Divine to the Demonic, an exhibition taking a cross-cultural look at the profound influence of female spiritual beings within global religion and faith.

Read the full review here

Feminine Power: The Divine to the Demonic continues at the British Museum until 25 September 2022.

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Wangechi Mutu, Grow the Tea, then Break the Cups, 2021

Soil, charcoal, paper pulp, wood, brown quartz, porcelain, crystal, ornaments, oyster shell, tin can, hair

94 x 43 x 29.8 cm

37 1/8 x 16 7/8 x 11 3/4 in

© Wangechi Mutu

Courtesy the artist and Victoria Miro