DESCRIPTION

Indigo dye runs through a hidden narrative in African history, soaking it in painful stories that began when West African bodies were traded by voracious Dutch merchants for a cloth of royal hue. In this series, Robyn Denny offers vivid, large scale, canvases and a potent, confronting performance.

Denny and Nymaza thus reunite to evoke a mesmeric flashpoint version of the complex history of a tumultuous trade – an urgent and symbolic purging of this coveted pigment’s old demons. 

Denny personally ground and liquefied the processed leaves of the Indigofera tinctoria plant for the works.