When was yinka shonibare born

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He rose to international prominence following his inclusion in the now historic Sensation exhibition organized by the Saatchi Gallery, London, to announce the ascendance of the so-called Young British Artists in In his work, he examines the complex history of empire and postcolonialism, asserting the dependence of post-imperial and postcolonial subjectivities on the legacies of colonialism, and the way these deep, often unacknowledged interdependencies inform the political, cultural and economic tensions that structure Europe's relationship with its former colonies.

Moreover, Shonibare draws on episodes of post-Renaissance, European art—especially classicism, Rococo and Romanticism—for his elegant, theatrical, and sometimes darkly humorous, headless characters whose activities conflate history and fantasy, but also the comedic dimensions and tragic outcomes of human action.

His work often traces a fine line, indeed sits comfortably on, the slippery border, between elite visual pleasures and social etiquette, and the rampant immorality and violence that forms the basis of colonial and imperial socio-political order Gallantry and Criminal Conversation , ; Mr and Mrs Andrews Without Their Heads , This simultaneous invocation of pleasure and violence is most evident in Shonibare's sculpture installation, Colonel Tarleton and Mrs Oswald Shooting , included in Who Knows Tomorrow?