A segment of a Voodoo altar, borderdestrict Togo/Bernin, a large male figure in the center with several attachments like febric, iron, raffia etc, framed by to helping spirits in shape of a posted figure and a headstake; white to blueish kaolin, poted on a blackened plinth.

In Africa, sculpture is a symbolic writing intended for ritual use. The artist who makes a fetish has been commissioned to do so, usually by a fetisher. The artist makes the fetish accessible to the Vodun user through the things that the object expresses; there is no functional quest for beauty. Everything is pared down to the essential, dedicated to the purpose of the object, which is primarily mystical, magical.

PATRICK VILAIRE - VODUN OBJECTS, Excerpted from the catalog Vodun: African Voodoo, Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain, Paris, 2011

Video-clip: Divorce spell Voodoo ceremony by Remi Dongo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FR9ysLC3Lcw

AN INTERVIEW WITH TATA DONGO REMI OF AFRICANMAGICK.COM
http://www.bondye.com

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Height:93 cm
Weight: 11,9 kg