Shark Island

Shark Island - digital giclée canvas, 60w x 40h (152.4 x 101.6 cm), 2017. Part of the Afrika series. One original edition available for public sale;... more

by Will Felix

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$999

Dimensions

60.000 x 40.000 x 2.000 inches

Title

Shark Island

Artist

Will Felix

Medium

Painting - Digital Art Painting

Description

"Shark Island" - digital giclée canvas, 60"w x 40"h (152.4 x 101.6 cm), 2017. Part of the "Afrika" series. One original edition available for public sale; and one available for gallery/museum request.

In the late 19th Century, there was a land grab competition in the African continent, and Germany sought to make its colonial imprint in the Namibia region in Southwest Africa. The Herero people revolted against German rule, at one point killing over 100 German settlers. Reinforcements went sent and the Herero were vanquished. Guerrilla warfare ensued, and the German response was to ship the Herero, and the Nama people who also rebelled, to concentration camps. One of the worst was located on Shark Island, off the southern coast.

This coincided with the Eugenics movement in science, and German doctors committed atrocities on the island in their attempts to prove Aryan superiority.

The irony of using barbarity to support a disfavored science is what brought forth this painting.

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January 19th, 2021

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