Wangechi Mutu

Black Soil Poems

Galleria Borghese

Photography, Documentation
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Photo: Agostino Osio
Photo Editing: Marco Dabbicco, Giulia Capra
Year: 2025

About the exhibition

Titled “Black Soil Poems” and curated by Cloé Perrone, this project stems from the museum’s ongoing interest in poetry. Conceived as a site-specific intervention, it unfolds throughout the museum’s interior galleries, its façade, and the Secret Gardens. It challenges classical tradition through suspensions, fragmented forms, and newly imagined mythologies, establishing a multilayered dialogue between the artist’s contemporary language and the symbolic institutional authority.