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KOCHI-MUZIRIS BIENNALE 2018

outh African artist Sue Williamson brought to the 4th Kochi-Muziris Biennale (KMB) 119 shirts, which she had dipped in the muddy waters of Cape Town’s Castle of Good Hope. Each piece of clothing bore the hand-written profile of an Indian slave who had been traded to South Africa during the 17th century. Every day, over the course of KMB, one garment was washed at a public

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