The cloths are made for African women to make dresses for special occasions, says Himid says. But now they are telling an alternative history: the history of those people on the walls, how they gained their wealth, what they used it for. The installation is trying to talk to them.
Bath is the epitome of what everybody thinks and wants the country to be like. In a sense, it's the epitome of the perfect English city or the perfect English landscape. And so, I'm interested in when you bring something that challenges that, which changes that, which shifts that. So, it tells a different story about that place.
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