Ed Janzen - Araphat

ED JANZEN | Araphat | "In a world often paralyzed by infantile political discourse, Andy Warhol’s famous multiple-screen print technique, with its candy-coloured American pop vocabulary, can offer us a Western but atypical lens through which to seek new understandings between cultures. We owe it to our world and ourselves to break past ritualized polemic, to search more broadly whenever we consider famous or important personalities of the past. In this series the late Palestinian president, Yasir Arafat, surely one of the most recognizable, iconic faces of the twentieth century, raises his fingers in the victory symbol as he exits a polling booth."