The slave - SOLD
Richard Mudariki (b 1985)
The slave - 2013
Acrylic on canvas
75 x 90 cm
Signed and dated bottom right
Sold - 2014
This painting references the Stanley Pinker work, ‘Kos is op die tafel’, which is in the University of Pretoria Collection. It is about the slave who steals and destroys so as to serve his covetous masters. To these masters he is a servant, but we see him as the bureaucrat. He hides behind a screen as he serves his masters, but to us he appears to have been liberated, and to benefit from the system.