Woven Legacies: Innovation & Tradition
Timed Online Auction, 2 - 24 February 2025
Innovation & Tradition
About the Session‘Woven Legacies: Innovation & Tradition’ highlights a diverse range of materials, techniques, and processes from various regions, including Southern, Central and Western Africa. These works coalesce utility, aesthetics and cultural identity. From the tactile threads of textiles to the intricate blending of natural fibres in baskets and the sculptural forms of steel, copper, brass and beads, the concept of weaving is reimagined as a metaphor for connection, storytelling and the passing on of tradition.
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Ceremonial calabashes such as this example hold cultural and symbolic significance, particularly for the Kuba people of the Democratic Republic of Congo. While the geometric patterns represent a deep connection to spirituality, status and identity, the black and red colours often symbolise the dualities that characterise life and death and the transitional stages of initiation.
Provenance
Design Afrika Collection
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