Aïda Muluneh

Age of Anxiety

Maker

Aïda Muluneh (Ethiopian, b. 1974)

Title

Age of Anxiety
from the series The World is 9

Year

2016

Medium

Materials/Techniques

Techniques

Dimensions

Image/Sheet: 80 x 80 cm (31 1/2 x 31 1/2 inches) (sight)

Identification

Edition

5 of 7

Credit / Object Number

Credit

Helen M. Danforth Acquisition Fund

Object Number

2018.19

Type

Publications

  • Journal

Manual / Issue 14: Shadows

The RISD Museum’s fourteenth issue of Manual shines a light on the shadow, centering the black body as a site of possibility, liberatory self-awareness, radical non-conformity, and joyful defiance. This issue serves as a companion to the exhibition Defying the Shadow.

Manual 14: Shadows opens with an excerpt on the shadow from W. E. B. Du Bois’s The Souls of Black Folk, followed by an introduction by Dr. Anita N. Bateman, who elucidates: “Operating in the shadow comes with a legacy of resistance, both in spiritual and ideological forms.”

Exhibition History

Defying the Shadow
Dec 01, 2020 – Dec 18, 2021

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Tombstone

Aïda Muluneh (Ethiopian, b. 1974)
Age of Anxiety; from the series The World is 9, 2016
Color inkjet print
Image/Sheet: 80 x 80 cm (31 1/2 x 31 1/2 inches) (sight)
Helen M. Danforth Acquisition Fund 2018.19

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