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Sumayya Vally

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  1. Goldman Sachs20 min

    Sumayya Vally, Founder and Director of Counterspace

    Sumayya Vally, Nishi Sumaya

    Johannesburg-based architect Sumaya Valli, drawing from her apartheid-era childhood, designed the 2024 Serpentine Pavilion to honor marginalized gathering spaces inspired by London's Caribbean heritage while utilizing reclaimed cork, steel, and micro-cement. Her firm Counterspace further applied this philosophy through the Folded Skies installation, which transforms toxic mining soil into iridescent materials to visualize Johannesburg's extraction history. Alongside these projects, Valli established a three-year network to sustainably support ten artists annually who intersect art, social justice, and ecology.