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Man’s Cloth
2001
Thousands of bottle-cap fragments are wired into a vast hanging surface. What reads as textile is made from the debris of trade.
Artist field note
El Anatsui
Metal behaves like cloth; waste behaves like history.
Appears inAfrica & The African Diaspora
The five in one idea
Anatsui turns discarded material into something regal without erasing where that material came from.