Kehinde Wiley | A Maze of Power

Roberts Projects is delighted to announce Kehinde Wiley: A Maze of Power at Mohammed VI Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art in Rabat, Morocco. Initiated in 2012, the unprecedented series explores the staging of power through the lens of African heads of state. The portraits reflect the distinctive cultural elements of each state, thus highlighting the immense diversity of the African continent, and reveal the identity of an individual through the double prism of the artist and his model. These paintings lay bare the contours of the ego, the diversity of possibilities in terms of taste or discernment, as well as the different communication strategies relating to the construction of an image, both personal and public. The exhibition is accompanied by a film presenting the working method and the artist's travels across the continent to meet his models.