Suspended Sculpture Transforms Cape Town Museum's Atrium

An installation by Malagasy artist Joel Andrianomearisoa "The Five Continents of All Our Desires," is seen in the Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa in Cape Town, South Africa, Wednesday, Sept. 7, 2022. The work transforms the towering atrium of the museum with black silk paper suspended in the museum's multi-story central atrium.(AP Photo/Nardus Engelbrecht)

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By Associated Press

September 16, 2022 at 9:52 AM UTC

Cape Town, South Africa (AP) -- Moody, brooding and floating, Malagasy artist Joel Andrianomearisoa's "The Five Continents of All Our Desires” is transforming the towering atrium of the Zeitz Museum of Contemporary African Art in Cape Town.

Malagasy's sculptures in black silk paper are suspended in the museum's multi-story central atrium. The constructions form a massive, slowly moving mobile that suggests geographical archipelagos and play off the building's massive concrete curving walls.