
Helene Love-Allotey
Head of Department
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£4,000 - £6,000
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Provenance
The October Gallery;
A private collection.
Sinzogan's detailed watercolours explore themes of migration and transitions between geographic sites and spiritual worlds being interpretations of Porto Novo's role in the Middle Passage. The capital of Benin that served as a major hub of the transatlantic slave trade and the artist distinguishes the worlds that he depicts: richly coloured sections suggest the spiritual, while sepia-toned areas allude to the earthly realm.