broken promise
These paintings reflect on the empty words of politicians who claim to be committed to helping people to build a better life. Goya’s work tells a similar story of the failure of the Church and monarchy to protect their own people, and of the violence inflicted upon them by Napoleon. Roméo Mivekannin’s Tres de Mayo, after Goya reminds us of the presence of Black people in Europe in this period.
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Michael Armitage, The Promise of Change, 2018
Dumile Feni, African Guernica, 1967
Diane Victor, Like Shooting Fish in a Barrel, 2006 - 2008
Francisco de Goya, Witches Flight, ca. 1798
Francisco de Goya, I saw it, 1810
William Kentridge, And When He Returned, 2019
Francisco de Goya, The 3rd of May 1808 in Madrid, 1814
Roméo Mivekannin, Tres de Mayo, after Goya, 2020
Johannes Phokela, Porch Resolution, 2021
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