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This was more about how I see the world and how I look at myself as a black woman born in apartheid South Africa in 1982.

— Mary Sibande

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...I can now marry the two worlds – fashion and fine art aren't far off from each other.

There were no museums and galleries in the town I grew up in; that was foreign to me.

The fabric used to produce uniforms for domestic workers is an instantly recognizable sight in domestic spaces in South Africa, and by applying it to Victorian dress she attempts to make a comment about history of servitude and colonization as it relates to the present in terms of domestic relationships.

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