Description
Artist: George Lewis
Title: The Noble Bedoon
Edition Edition of 5. Edition no 2
Media: Archival Chromogenic print on aluminum
Mounting: On acrylic
Dimensions: 240 x 120 cm
Weight: 6 kg
Year of Work : 2011
Condition: Good
Location of work: Dubai
Selling Price: USD $ 10,500
Artist Comentary of Work:
Bedoon means without, stateless, literally having no passport. I met this man on the Iraq/Kuwait border, his grandfather was sold into slavery from East Africa and the family have lived in the Nedj Desert since. In this work I contrast the noble bedoon with an ignoble modern city and oil station that pollutes most of southern Kuwait. In the middle ground is a white camel in silhouette that is of great value. This work is questioning the current reality of the balance of and lack of power therein.
