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Mediterranean Sea View
YEAR
2017
MEDIUM
Oil on canvas (triptych)
LOCATION
Folkestone, Kent
COUNTRY
UK
[ DESCRIPTION ]
Three ornate gold-framed paintings arranged as if in a Victorian gallery, each depicting the Mediterranean Sea with migrant rescue craft and orange lifejackets.
[ CRITICAL ANALYSIS ]
A brutal confrontation of gallery aesthetics with humanitarian crisis. The ornate framing signals "high art," but the content — drowning migrants — forces the viewer to reckon with what European culture chooses to frame, aestheticise, and ignore.
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