Ashobi
Video Sculpture, 2013
The colonial and neo-colonial history of the African Dutch Wax textile is codified and embedded in the textile. The textile was produced using the techniques originally used to make African Dutch Wax.
West African women were filmed wrapping and unwrapping the textile on their heads.
Textile, Video
Exhibition view
Collaborator on textile: Eliza Sqibb
Ashobi Public art, Delhi, Johannesburg, Kampala, 2013
News print, wheat paste
Documentation