Artpace 25th Anniversary Benefit Auction | Hosted by Sotheby’s
Artpace 25th Anniversary Benefit Auction | Hosted by Sotheby’s
Isaac Julien
Love/Hate
Lot Closed
September 28, 06:07 PM GMT
Estimate
8,000 - 10,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Isaac Julien (b. 1960)
Love/Hate
2006
Signed on Verso
Digital print
Edition Printer's Proof (From the edition of: 100 numbered editions, 10 AP, 2 PP, 1 BAT)
15 ¾ x 34 ¾ in.
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Gift of Janet Lennie Flohr
This print by British artist and filmmaker Isaac Julien is taken from his film Paradise Omeros, which follows its protagonist from contemporary St. Lucia to 1960s England, and back to St. Lucia, on an symbolic search for “home.” Based upon the Nobel Prize-winning epic Omeros by Caribbean poet Derek Wolcott, Isaac’s shifting narrative frames cultural references relating to the Westernized promised land. Love/Hate is taken from a scene where two characters speak of the perpetual battle between love and hate, where love always wins, echoing the protagonist’s struggle with his own post-colonial identity.