Thandiwe Muriu: WAX - Musée de l’Homme, Paris, France
Textile with bright colors and varied patterns, wax is recognizable among all. This fabric, generally perceived as "African", has crossed time and borders. For more than a decade, its popularity has been unprecedented in Western societies: clothing, accessories, objects... Wax is increasingly present in homes and wardrobes. Yet its unique history remains little known.
The exhibition at the Musée de l'Homme proposed to highlight this fabric. It showed a wide variety of fabrics, illustrating the richness of designs, patterns and colors that characterize it.
Thandiwe Muriu presented two prints deeply inspired by African textile narratives, in particular Ankara (wax) fabrics, which she uses as a canvas to reinvent, celebrate and transmit cultural heritages.
