Emanuel Tegene
The heir's wife, 2025
Acrylic and oil stick on canvas
150 x 150 cm
59 x 59 in
59 x 59 in
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'The Heir’s Wife interrogate the weight of expectation within family structures, where love and obligation are often indistinguishable. [The painting] presents a face etched into a coin, that evokes the...
"The
Heir’s Wife interrogate the weight of expectation within family structures, where love and obligation are
often indistinguishable. [The painting] presents a face etched into a coin, that evokes the permanence of
lineage, its spectral portrait emerging from the worn imprint of a coin—a symbol of both material wealth,
greed and the weight of legacy."
Excerpt from the curatorial text.
