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Perspective-shifting artwork to provide healing at children’s hospital
17 Jul 2021
Nomthi Mnisi, looking for new perspective in the Shift-19 artwork that was donated to the Nelson Mandela Children’s Hospital this week
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Perspective will help people move forward from the difficulties and setbacks that the coronavirus pandemic has posed since it began. Element artist Alexa Pienaar has incorporated this into her prize-winning installation that will be housed by the Nelson Mandela Children’s Hospital from this week.
“I focus predominantly on how children and younger generations may perceive their and our current situation and how they or we may potentially comport our lives moving forward,” she says. “Covid-19 has had an impact on how we see the world, on our perspectives, and this comes through in the piece.”
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