Artist Yinka Shonibare has brought Winston Churchill down to size

The Serpentine’s Suspended States is Shonibare’s first solo institutional show in London for 20 years

Yinka Shonibare’s ‘Decolonised Structures’ 2022-23 on show in ‘Suspended States’ at the Serpentine Gallery Yinka Shonibare CBE wears that title, pointedly, as part of his name. The artist declares himself a Commander of the British Empire in full knowledge of the historical legacy and contemporary friction the title carries.and millennia-long histories of cultural exchange. As a critical thinker his tendency is more “yes, and” than “no”.

One of Yinka Shonibare’s ‘Decolonised Structures’, a statue of Winston Churchill remodelled in fibreglass and hand painted Two smaller galleries house works on paper, and pictorial embroideries that draw on a blend of sources. Two quilt-like works in applique are based on source material from the medieval Mappa Mundi, detailing the monsters believed to lurk in far-off lands – each in its own way betraying a fear of the unknown. I can only imagine

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