Coumba Samba: Stars and Stripes is the first solo museum presentation devoted to artist Coumba Samba. A Senegalese American artist based in New York, Samba is known for her site-specific installations that draw on histories of modernist abstraction and minimalism, taking seemingly neutral non-objective forms from the global built environment and exposing the social, political, and economic structures embedded within.
For this lobby gallery exhibition, Samba is presenting an immersive installation titled Stars and Stripes that critically examines the development of nuclear power and the African resource extraction that has sustained it. Titled after a common figure of speech to refer to the American flag, the installation continues Samba’s practice of deconstructing the symbols and forms that uphold the U.S. military-industrial complex.
Whitney Museum of American Art