Rebecca Scott
La Diaspora (part 1)
La Diaspora (part 1)
La Diaspora (part 1)
Title: La Diaspora (part 1)
Date: 2023
Medium: Oil on canvas
Artist: Rebecca Scott
Exhibition: En Route, 2024
From press release:
Théodore Géricault’s radical painting, Raft of the Medusa (1819), depicting the survivors of a shipwreck, starving and adrift on a makeshift raft, combined with online imagery of present day migration is the inspiration for this series of work, ‘Migrant Paintings’. These images of displacement, overlaid with images of emojis show a dialogue between different lives, lived in radically different circumstances, posing questions of empathy and emotional connection with family and strangers alike.
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