A brush with... Kapwani Kiwanga

Kapwani Kiwanga talks to Ben Luke about the cultural experiences that have shaped her life and work.

Kiwanga was born in Hamilton, Canada, in 1978 and lives in Paris. She works primarily in sculpture and installation but also with performance, sound and video. She explores what she has called “power asymmetries”, drawing from forgotten or unexpected histories and studies in everything from botany to sociology, to create enigmatic but alluring objects and environments in a wealth of materials.

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