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Nelson’s Ship in a Bottle
2010
HMS Victory is miniaturized and given patterned sails. A national icon returns carrying the global trade history behind it.
Artist field note
Yinka Shonibare
Empire dressed for the party.
Appears inAfrica & The African Diaspora
The five in one idea
Shonibare makes colonial history impossible to separate from taste, costume, luxury and the stories nations tell about themselves.