A Fon (Voodoo) Fetish sculpture, border district Togo/Benin, blue and red stripes of fabric, now grey due to the thick sacrificial patina, various attachments of different materials like wood, bone, metal, wire and padlocks, one on a headband in the middle of the forehead, bulging eyes, triangular nose, slightly opened mouth, thus imparting a pained expression to the sculpture; some feathers and a thick grey sacrificial patina all over the sculpture.

„A close bond necessarily develops between the user and the variant artists and “activators” of the objects, reinforced by the acknowledged risk incurred in the very process of creating and empowering these objects.“
Suzanne Preston Blier, African Vodun. Art, Psychology, and Power, University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 1995, p. 39-40.

Lit.: Jaques Kerchache, Fondation Cartier, Vaudou, Vodun, 2011.

700 - 800,- Euro

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