Conrad Botes (South African 1969). Liberal Communist, 2016.
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- Gallery Huberty & Breyne, Paris
- Acquired at the above by the present owner
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Notes : The God Horus, in this case portrayed as a human with a falcon head, was the god of the Sun and kingship and served a representation of the living king of Egypt. The title of the work refers to a quote by Slavoj Žižek which reads as follows: "In Liberal Communist ethics, the ruthless pursuit of profit is countered by charity. Charity is the humanitarian mask hiding the face of economic exploitation. In a superego blackmail of gigantic proportions, the developed countries 'help' the underdeveloped with aid, credits and so on, and thereby avoiding the key issue, namely their complicity in and co-responsibility for the miserable situation of the underdeveloped." The figure of Horus, with stigmata on his hands and placed on a pile of gold bars, creates an iconological amalgam representing the 'liberal communist'.
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