DanceAfrica boasts offerings for all the senses. Listen to heart-pounding music on stage and at parties, take in smells at the outdoor bazaar, and feast your eyes upon stunning visual artwork—like “Voices of Peace” by Sanaa Gateja.
Alongside our partners at The Museum of Contemporary African Diasporan Arts (MoCADA), we’re excited to share a piece of the Ugandan artist's practice, giving new life to post-consumer paper through intricate beadwork.
Using bark cloth as canvas, Gateja concocts works of ornate beadwork that invoke pointillism in their vivid imagining. “Voices of Peace” (2023) produces different viewing experiences from afar and up close. In its full scale: colors blur in a rendition of fifteen figures standing before a forest ablaze, an ode to peace and the importance of environmental protections. Up close, each vibrant bead represents the labor of rolling post-consumer paper (offering glimpses of posters, pamphlets, or textbooks), and these constellations beget smaller masterworks embedded in a larger tapestry.
Through a uniquely singular practice, Gateja, also known as “The Bead King,” produces work that demands extended viewing, as each closer investigation reveals new aesthetic and thematic moments.
Alongside our partners at The Museum of Contemporary African Diasporan Arts (MoCADA), we’re excited to share a piece of the Ugandan artist's practice, giving new life to post-consumer paper through intricate beadwork.
Using bark cloth as canvas, Gateja concocts works of ornate beadwork that invoke pointillism in their vivid imagining. “Voices of Peace” (2023) produces different viewing experiences from afar and up close. In its full scale: colors blur in a rendition of fifteen figures standing before a forest ablaze, an ode to peace and the importance of environmental protections. Up close, each vibrant bead represents the labor of rolling post-consumer paper (offering glimpses of posters, pamphlets, or textbooks), and these constellations beget smaller masterworks embedded in a larger tapestry.
Through a uniquely singular practice, Gateja, also known as “The Bead King,” produces work that demands extended viewing, as each closer investigation reveals new aesthetic and thematic moments.
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Located along the escalator wall
Located along the escalator wall
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