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Last Chance To See! Lubaina Himid: Our Kisses Are Petals. Baltic Centre For Contemporary Art.

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data.entry.eventDescription = Turner Prize-winning artist Lubaina Himid presents Our Kisses are Petals, a solo show of new work in BALTIC’s Ground Floor gallery. As part of her exhibition at BALTIC, Himid will also present a community-focused outdoor commission. Our Kisses are Petals originates from new paintings on cloth that employ the patterns, colours and symbolism of the Kanga, a vibrant cotton fabric traditionally worn by East African women as a shawl, head scarf, baby carrier, or wrapped around the waist. Typically, kangas consist of three parts: the pindo (border), the mji (central motif), and the jina (message or ‘name’), which often takes the form of a riddle or proverb. For Himid, these multicoloured fabrics are ‘speaking clothes’, which employ ‘the language of image, pattern and text through which one woman’s outfit talks to another’s’. Himid’s works engage in a dialogue with each other and with the viewer, both through their individual jina, borrowed from influential writers just as James Baldwin, Sonia Sanchez, Essex Hemphill and Audre Lorde, and through the invitation for visitors to rearrange the hanging works by a system of pulleys to form their own poetry.
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