Ibrahim Mahama wraps the Barbican Art Centre in massive pink fabrics

The Barbican Art Centre has been covered in a gigantic bright pink wrapper providing a sharp contrast to the rest of the Brutalist estate.This is Purple Hibiscus, a monumental site-specific artwork by the Ghanaian artist Ibrahim Mahama created from some 2,000 square metres of bespoke woven cloth created by women weavers and sewing collectives in Ghana.
It’ll probably remind many of the works by Christo artistic duo, where the two partnered to cover buildings in sheets of fabric. The differ