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Translated into wearable sculptures - and, in an accompanying video, paraded through the streets of Cotonou, where the Tresses were made - the car is both elevated and brought back down to earth. Gaba playfully redirects attention to the economy as experienced at street level, in the market place of an African city, a prototypical arena for human trade. In presenting a tank as a pink wig, Gaba neutralises its symbolic threat of military might - yet the wig's synthetic fibres, derived from petrochemicals, give an underlying sting to his critique.

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