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Fresh and Fading Memories
2007
Colour shifts across a metallic skin like memory itself - bright in places, worn away in others.
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.