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Lost Wax shows artists at work in the traditional brass-casting district in Benin City (Nigeria), using the ancient lost wax technique (cire perdue) and recycled metal from the West to produce metal cast artefacts

In Concert shows a cellist and a pianist playing the first movement of Shostakovich’s Cello Concerto No 1 without their instruments. The music operates as a kind of ghostly mnemonic prompting their physically remembered gestures.

series of 3 drawings, 2005 The drawings in the seies Pentagraphs represents the first seventeen bars of the cello part of Shostakovich’s Concerto No. 1 for Cello in E-flat major (op. 107), 1959. It employs a method inspired by an … More →

C-type print on dibond, 40 cm x 29 cm, 2005/8