The latest addition to the Norval Foundation's sculpture garden, by Yinka Shonibare, celebrates the hybrid nature of identity
The large-scale 'Wind Sculpture III' at Cape Town's Norval Foundation is by Yinka Shonibare, one of Britain's best-known contemporary artists.It twists and undulates as if caught in a breeze that will lift it up and away into the sky. It surges, billows and rolls. It swells up and ripples down. It swings and whirls and weaves and oscillates. And yet the latest addition to the Norval Foundation's sculpture garden in Cape Town doesn't move at all.
Shonibare's 6m-tall fibreglass work, painted in vibrant batik patterns, references the sails of ships, unfurling in the wind, particularly those vessels that transported Dutch wax-print fabrics to Africa. It is also thought to be a metaphor for ideas being exchanged among cultures. These fabrics are not African in origin at all; in fact, says Shonibare, their origins highlight the messiness of colonialism and question the notion of cultural appropriation.
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