It is a spectacular, intriguing, disturbing exhibition. And it raises a lot of questions and reactions. At the Musée du Quai Branly, in Paris, “Daedalus of Power” by Kehinde Wiley, portraitist of Barack Obama, is first of all a black labyrinth where eleven aestheticized and illuminated portraits of African heads of state emerge in monumental format. A disturbing interplay between black pride, colonial history, African power and pictorial innovation.
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The artist Kehinde Wiley, kingmaker of African heads of state at the Quai Branly museum
