Commissioned by Dublin City Gallery The Hugh Lane, Yinka Shonibare has created a new sculptural installation, Egg Fight, 2009, based on themes developed in Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels. The work refers specifically to lengthy battles between the fictitious empires of Lilliput and Blefuscu over the religious question of “egg-breaking” which symbolised the long series of wars between Catholic France and Protestant England. In addition to this new commission, a new series of large-scale drawings by Shonibare, entitled Climate Shit Drawings, 2009, are on view.
Yinka Shonibare MBE
Dublin City Gallery The Hugh Lane, Dublin, Ireland
26 February - 30 August 2009
Egg Fight, 2009, on view at Yinka Shonibare MBE, Dublin City Gallery The Hugh Lane, Dublin, Ireland, 26 February - 30 August 2009. Courtesy of Dublin City Gallery The Hugh Lane, Dublin, Ireland.