Afua Hirsch on Africa Rising, Liverpool Biennial, Basquiat in Basel with Jeffrey Deitch
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The Importance of Material Culture in Contemporary Art
There's this lovely engagement on the whole through the programmes with material culture in all sorts of ways. I really saw that with a kind of younger generation of artists on the African continent that they're actually obsessed with their ancestral traditions. So as you were saying about Adiré, which is the traditional way of printing cloth with very natural indigo dyes in Nigeria. It was just so interesting to see young artists really embracing that craftsmanship. And also use those traditions to have questions about gender or sexuality or power that they're interested in. You know, something that is happening across the world. I think we all have this yearning to really understand the past and understand what we are the
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