How can materials and forms associated with racial oppression be subverted to oppose their original meaning? Can art help us reimagine difficult pasts in ways that allows us to heal in the present? To find out, listen to this episode where Mary Sibande is in conversation with SB15 curator Hoor Al Qasimi.

At Sharjah Biennial 15, Sibande installed a work called A Reverse Retrogress: Scene 1 (2013). Featuring a domestic worker standing before a purple sculpture, the work references the 1989 Purple Rain anti-apartheid protest in Cape Town.