even wallpaper, it turns out, can have an agenda. The American artist and activist Malene Djenaba Barnett is talking to me from her elegant Brooklyn townhouse, and behind her is a wall covered with her own, instantly recognisable design, Mosaic, created for the LA-based interiors brand Lulu and Georgia. This dynamic pattern with metallic accents ‘celebrates the legacy of Afro-Caribbean women potters’, she explains.
Legacy-making is Malene’s mission (well, one
