The Painful Joy of Love

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By Habib Hajallie
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Dimensions (HxWxD):

42 × 30 × 0 cm

Materials:

graphite pencil collaged on 1940s antique text

Primary Medium:

Drawing

Small
2020
Signed on Back
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This work was awarded 'The Young Artist Prize' at The Drawing Society 2021 exhibition at the Mall Galleries. This self-portrait depicts the romanticised notion of the archetypal artist plagued with the ‘affliction’ of an apparently innate desire to pursue art. With the macabre image of a pencil penetrating the subject’s head, I look to convey the inner turmoil experienced during the tumultuous journey of becoming an artist. The pages from the 1940s text Questions Of Our Day provide a direct means of contextualising the motifs surrounding this pursuit of career as a fulltime artist that I have chosen to devote my life to. This portrait shows a sense of vulnerability that is traditionally hidden in the presentation of young British men of African descent, such as myself. I hope that it can enable a discourse apropos to mental health to continue.

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