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The Eliminated or The Sons of God - Part: 2

Past exhibition
13 June - 9 July 2019
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The Eliminated or The Sons of God - Part: 2

Past exhibition
13 June - 9 July 2019
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Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Ali Zakeri, The Eliminate Or The Sons Of God Series 10, 2015

Ali Zakeri b. 1959

The Eliminate Or The Sons Of God Series 10, 2015
Acrylic on cardboard
22 x 40 cm
8 5/8 x 15 3/4 in
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It appears that the Persian word “Dāvar” (referee) is a modification of “Dādvar”: judge. Therefore, the presence of a referee means the presence of law; the presence of warnings, fouls...
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It appears that the Persian word “Dāvar” (referee) is a modification of “Dādvar”: judge.
Therefore, the presence of a referee means the presence of law; the presence of warnings, fouls and penalties. It is not unlike the presence of God; among 'the sons of God’. Would one believe that a game with such degree of violence has a referee? Yet it does!
Would one believe our world of such insanity, violence, pillage and bloodshed has a God? It apparently does!
An arbiter that stands behind a line, staring at us.
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