Body Architecture - Collective Wear Soweto
Date:
1997
Ref:
0053
Materials:
Tent membrane, second hand clothes from Soweto, 1 telescopic carbon armature, 5 aluminium poles, 6 copper joints
Dimensions:
350 x 200 x 200cm
Catalogued:
p29 Phaidon Press, UK 2002
Exhibition history:
2020 ArtYard, Frenchtown, New Jersey, US; 2006 Gallery Continua Beijing, China; 2004 Lothringer 13 Munich, Germany; 1997 2nd Johanesburg Biennale, South Africa
Courtesy:
Lucy + Jorge Orta
Body Architecture - Collective Wear Soweto is constructed with an external tent membrane, over-stitched with fragments of used-clothes purchased from the community markets in Soweto, South Africa. Lucy Orta visited and worked with a group of women from the townships of Johannesburg to create the Nexus Architecture performance, for the 2nd Johannesburg Biennale in 1997.