Art history has provided a rich source of subject matter for @shonibarestudio, ‘Mr. and Mrs. Andrews without their Heads’, 1998, by Yinka Shonibare CBE is a satirical take on Thomas Gainsborough’s famous 18th-century painting of the privileged Andrews family. The original painting is a wedding portrait that serves as a statement about Britain’s land gentry. In Shonibare’s work, the couple is reimagined without their heads, a playful reference to the beheading of the French aristocracy and the revolutionary redistribution of power and land just 40 years after Gainsborough’s painting. ‘Mr. and Mrs. Andrews without their Heads’, 1998, is currently on view at Ottawa Art Gallery until 14 August 2022. To find out more visit, www.oaggao.ca. Image: Yinka Shonibare CBE, ‘Mr. and Mrs. Andrews without their Heads’, 1998. Collection of National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa. Image courtesy the artist and National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa. @ottawaartgallery #yinkashonibarecbe