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David G. Tretiakoff
Drawing & Print (Drawing & Print)
Immolation I is taken from the four-part Immolation series which shows four Arab revolutionaries who publicly sacrificed themselves through self-immolation and in so doing heralded the beginning of the Arab Spring. The lugubrious drawings are made with cigarette burns, a direct reference to torture and burning stakes, even if what is depicted here can be considered the ultimate act of resistance in the form of self-destruction. The portraits were meticulously executed on large-scale fragile sheets of paper.
David G. Tretiakoff
The work of French filmmaker David Gheron Tretiakoff often revolves around the socio-political movements of the Middle East...
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