Object Record
Images
Metadata
Accession Number |
2013.21.00 |
Catalog Number |
2013.21.01 |
Object Name |
Painting |
Collection |
Nadia Khiari |
Date |
2013 |
Description |
Nadia Khiari's "Vivre Libre ou Mourir (Live Free or Die)" (2013) Watercolor on paper From the "Willis From Tunis" series. Caption from Creative Dissent: Arts of the Arab World Uprising "Tunisia has witnessed assassinations of politicians who played a key role in the 2011 revolution and who later opposed the Islamist Al-Nahda governing party. The most recent political casualties were Mohammed Brahmi and Chokri Belaïd, members of Tunisia's left-wing coalition, who were gunned down and killed in 2013. Both murders have been linked to hardline Salafists. In this cartoon from the "Willis from Tunis" series, artist Nadia Khiari comments on the internecine political situation in Tunisia. Here, a revolutionary cat representing a young left-wing secularist holds a banner that reads "Live Free or Die" while he is beaten to death by a bearded Salafi screaming 'Die!'" |
Artist |
Nadia Khiari |
Title |
Vivre Libre ou Mourir (Live Free or Die) |
People |
Khiari, Nadia |
Search Terms |
Arab American art Activist art |
Subjects |
Art Activists |
Lexicon category |
8: Communication Artifact |