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Radio 4. The My castaway this week is the artist Jinka Shunibare. His work has populated museums worldwide

with a vivid subversity and often tragic

comic presence exploring themes of cultural identity, post-colonialism,

and the impact of globalization.

He is something of a citizen of the world himself. Born in

London, his parents moved the family to Nigeria when he was three. Later he came

back to Britain to finish his education, but his plans to study art were brutally

interrupted when he contracted a disease that attacked his central nervous

system as a result he had three years of intensive rehab He now uses a wheelchair and works with

assistance to create his art. He says all the things that are supposed to be

wrong with me have actually become a huge asset. I'm talking about race and disability.

They're meant to be negatives within our society, but they're precisely the things

that have liberated me. So welcome. It is a tricky thing to try and describe the art that you do precisely because you work across so many forms.

You do filmed works, you do paintings, you do installations, you do sculpture.

You once said that you want the work you do to be beautiful and dark art.

Well, what a phrase that is. What do you mean by beautiful and dark art? The world is so complex and of

course it's easy to be angry and it's easy to you know a weather, anger on the outside, but I think it's best to produce work that will make people think, that will make people engage with what you're trying to do.

I believe in the idea of the Trojan horse.

So I like being a subversive,

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