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This ongoing body of work deals with the global trade in secondhand clothes. Every year, twenty-four billion garments are donated to charity: the majority are shipped to the African continent. Most are sold in street markets, but forty percent are dumped on mountains of landfill. In Ghana, they are known as ‘obroni wawu’, Dead White Men’s Clothes.

In each chapter of this ongoing work, Hutchison performs the Dead White Man. Mobilising his own subject position - a white Western male - he becomes the embodiment of this troubling industry. Wearing sculptures made from secondhand clothes sourced …