© Romuald Hazoumé
© Romuald Hazoumé
© Romuald Hazoumé
© Romuald Hazoumé
© Romuald Hazoumé
© Romuald Hazoumé
© Romuald Hazoumé
La Bouche Du Roi
Romuald Hazoumé
- Art Funded
- 2006
- Dimensions
- 10 x 2.9 m
- Vendor
- Elisabeth Lalouscheck
La Bouche du Roi is a multi-media installation, the main components of which are 304 'masks' made from black plastic petrol cans, a CD of sounds and voices, and a short film detailing the lives of motorcyclists who run petrol between Bénin and Nigeria, a form of modern day slavery.
The shape of the installation is based on a famous 18th-century print of the British slave ship, the Brookes, a model of which Wilberforce used in his campaign for abolition. The artist uses cans to suggest the bodies of slaves portrayed in the print.
Provenance
The artist; The October Gallery.