Artwork
Body Architecture - Collective Wear Soweto
Lucy Orta, 1997
- Ref: 0053
- Materials: Tent membrane, second hand clothes from Soweto, 1 telescopic carbon armature, 5 aluminium poles, 6 copper joints
- Dimensions: 350x200x200cm
- Catalogued: p29 Phaidon Press, UK 2002
- Exhibition history: 1997 Johanesburg Biennale, South Africa; 2004 Lothringer 13 Munich, Germany; 2006 Gallery Continua Beijing
- Courtesy: Collection of the artists
- Concept: Body Architecture- Collective Wear Soweto is constructed with an external tent membrane stitched with fragments of used-clothes purchased from the community markets in Soweto South Africa. Lucy Orta visited and worked with members of similar townships in Johannesburg for the project she created for the 2nd Johannesburg Biennale in 1997.
