Zainab Sumu turns ordinary objects into the extraordinary

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The multimedia artist’s appreciation of traditional techniques and materials is a way for ancestral wisdom to be passed to newer generations and audiences. “Through these objects, through bodies, through rituals, through the cultural practices,” Sumu said, “it is how those memories, those knowledges, get to be carried.”

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