The “Universal Couple,” a five-foot tall metal sculpture of a man and a woman in embrace, highlighted in iron and copper, is a stunning piece of work by Expedito Mwebe Kibbula. Giving a sculpture or a drawing too explicit a title takes away part of that mystery so that the onlooker moves on to the next object, making no effort to ponder the meaning of what he has just seen. The five-foot-tall metal sculpture of the two figurines representing the Universal Couple was meant to grace the Murumbi Memorial Garden together with the “The Bird of Peace Emerging from the Stone of Despair” sculpted by Prof Elkana Ongesa, which echoes a line from a Martin Luther King speech. Prof Ongesa’s sculptures adorn the entry of the United Nations Building in New York; the front of the Unesco headquarters in Paris; the Coca-Cola headquarters in Atlanta and Caltex headquarters in Houston, Texas.

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