izdihar afyouni
250 x 180 cm Oil on canvas 2016
250 x 180 cm Oil on canvas 2016
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250 x 180 cm Oil on canvas 2016
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135 x 110 cm Mixed media on canvas 2016
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122 x 152cm Oil on canvas 2018
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135 x 110 cm Mixed media on canvas 2017
180 x 250 cm Oil on canvas 2018 Our language of entitlement and enslavement is tied to our colonial past, exerts itself in the present and extends to our relationship to the Earth’s resources and other species. It is yet another turn on the conceptualization of capitalism that as Marx stated, kills both man and nature in its exploitative performative transformations.[x] It is the language of callous cruelty, of narcissism, of speciesism that can help explain why human technological ‘progress’ parallels ecological devastation. Likewise, in the human propensity for political strife and acts of war, the environment and lowest echelons of society suffer irredeemable destruction. Cruelty, no matter how abstract or distant it might seem, manifests in very real consequences. They aren’t universal. We don’t all suffer equally. And we don’t all have an opportunity to consent.
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250 x 180 cm Oil on canvas 2016
250 x 180 cm Oil on canvas 2016
detail 2
detail
250 x 180 cm Oil on canvas 2016
detail
135 x 110 cm Mixed media on canvas 2016
detail
122 x 152cm Oil on canvas 2018
detail
135 x 110 cm Mixed media on canvas 2017
180 x 250 cm Oil on canvas 2018 Our language of entitlement and enslavement is tied to our colonial past, exerts itself in the present and extends to our relationship to the Earth’s resources and other species. It is yet another turn on the conceptualization of capitalism that as Marx stated, kills both man and nature in its exploitative performative transformations.[x] It is the language of callous cruelty, of narcissism, of speciesism that can help explain why human technological ‘progress’ parallels ecological devastation. Likewise, in the human propensity for political strife and acts of war, the environment and lowest echelons of society suffer irredeemable destruction. Cruelty, no matter how abstract or distant it might seem, manifests in very real consequences. They aren’t universal. We don’t all suffer equally. And we don’t all have an opportunity to consent.
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