Artist field note

El Anatsui

Metal behaves like cloth; waste behaves like history.

Dusasa I by El Anatsui
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Dusasa I

2007

The shimmering folds change every time the work is installed. Monumentality is allowed to remain flexible.

The five in one idea

Anatsui turns discarded material into something regal without erasing where that material came from.