Zohra Opoku
(Altdobern, former GDR, 1976 -)
'Hail to you, lords of truth, free from wrongdoing, who exists forever and forever. I have reached you because I am an akh with my forms. I am powerful through my magic'
Date2020
MediumBronze and screenprint on linen
DimensionsPillow: 9 x 27 x 26 in. (22.9 x 68.6 x 66 cm)
Face: 7 1/2 x 6 1/4 in. (19.1 x 15.9 cm)
Hand: 9 1/8 x 4 in. (23.2 x 10.2 cm)
Installed: 41 x 27 x 26 in. (104.1 x 68.6 x 66 cm)
Credit LineMarieluise Hessel Collection, Hessel Museum of Art, Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York
CopyrightCourtesy of Mariane Ibrahim.
Object numberR2022.29.a-c
ClassificationsSculpture
Not on view
DescriptionCreated in 2020, issued in 2022Exhibitions
Promenade: Flowers and Figuration in the Marieluise Hessel Collection (2024-04-06 - 2024-05-26)
Sharjah Biennial 15: Thinking Historically in the Present (2023-02-07 - 2023-06-11)
!['My head shall not be taken from me. You shall raise me up. You shall make me new. You shall rejuvenate me.' [Extract from Chapter 43: spell for not letting the head/An Ancient Egyptian Book of the Dead/The Papyrus of Sobekmose.]](/internal/media/dispatcher/10100/thumbnail)
