Sammy Baloji, Goods Trades Roots (2020)

Weaving loom in Afzelia wood Weaving in copper acrylic and cotton yarns Inspiry by a "M’fuba" mat made of fibre of screw pine from the Vili culture (Kongo), in the collections of the Anthropology Dept. of the National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian. Collected by Carl Steckelmann in 1892. Inv. No. 165321 Made in collaboration with Estelle Chatelain, 195 × 162 × 12 cm