Full article about Ibrahim Mahama as published by BBC

London's grey and angular Barbican Centre is now a sea of pink - its frontage covered in cloth that billows in the breeze as if dancing.

When something is at that point of its life, I always think that is when it is beginning to live more.".

Some families would not give Mahama their batakari until they had put urine on it because they believe that the family's past, present and future is contained in the decades-old garment.

"They believe that when they do that, it somehow desacralises the material and then the soul will somehow escape away from it," explains Mahama.

"I thought what could be more beautiful than creating this relationship between these two labour forms - one that is coming from a post-war era, and then one that is coming from the 21st Century but also steeped in traditions and histories of the pre-colonial era.".

The billowing forms that batakari take when their wearers dance have always fascinated Mahama, who says they create a kind of optical effect

It seems to me that, when the wind blows in a certain way, Purple Hibiscus is performing its own special dance