The Norval Sovereign African Art Prize 2022 Benefit Auction | Hosted by Sotheby’s

The Norval Sovereign African Art Prize 2022 Benefit Auction | Hosted by Sotheby’s

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Dawit L. Petros

Untitled (Epilogue VIII), Longueuil, Quebec, 2021

No reserve

Reserves

Lot Closed

February 22, 05:11 PM GMT

Estimate

5,000 - 6,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Dawit L. Petros

Eritrean/Canadian

b.1972

Untitled (Epilogue VIII), Longueuil, Quebec, 2021


editioned 1/1 special edition on the accompanying certificate of authenticity

archival pigment print on resin coated paper, dibond mounted

76 by 95.5cm., 30 by 37½in.

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This work has been kindly donated by the artist

Dawit L. Petros (b. 1972, Eritrea) is a multidisciplinary artist, whose works analyse the boundaries and limits of geography, cultural knowledge, and subjectivity, making use of photography and in its capacity to describe and shape the world. Since 2013, Petros has focused his research on a careful re-reading of the entanglements between colonialism and modernity in the Horn of Africa. As an African immigrant who spent formative years in Eritrea, Ethiopia, and Kenya before settling in central Canada he interrogates the triangulated and silenced colonial links of Eritrea, Italy, and Canada with contemporary migrants from the Horn of Africa so that invisible colonial vectors are legible.