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Fragments of the Zidanku Silk Manuscripts (Volumes II and III). Photo credit: National Museum of Asian Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC: S1982.84.1-5 ...

She lived in Cape Town, South Africa from 2019. There she was executive director and chief curator of the Zeitz MOCAA museum. It holds the continent’s largest collection of contemporary art.