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Grenfell Tower Artist's 'Inherent Strength' Celebrated

Artist Khadija Saye lived with her mother on the 20th floor of Grenfell Tower, a lower-income housing project in London’s North Kensington neighborhood. Neither escaped the blaze.
"Tééré" from the series "Dwelling:in this space we breathe."
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It would have been only a matter of time. Death had no need to push her into the limelight. She was on her way there—attracting the interest of gallerists and curators; celebrated, at 24, as one of the

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