I bumped into Sanaa Gateja at the exhibition It Resonates, showing at Ngara’s Creative District until October 4. I noticed him when he moved to the barkcloth to fix a piece of beadwork on one of his creations, which he reckons must have been pulled by mistake. The fixed glue he is using does not work, so he sends for another one before taking me around his works at the exhibition.
One of his pieces, The Queen Arrives, enthrals, more so because you have to figure out the sinews and tapestry to make sense of it. Taken as a photograph on a phone, you instantly pick out the figurines in the assembly of beads and small colourful balls, all stitched on barkcloth.
