Nidhal Chamekh
ꓤÒԀS , 2023
Synthetic plaster
Produced in collaboration with L’atelier de moulage de la RMN – Grand Paris
Produced in collaboration with L’atelier de moulage de la RMN – Grand Paris
172h x 35w cm
The sculpture SPQR is a reproduction of the étendard that figures in Carthaginian general Hannibal’s statute at the Louvre museum. The telltale SPQR (“Senatus PopulusQue Romanus”), which stands for the...
The sculpture SPQR is a reproduction of the étendard that figures in Carthaginian general Hannibal’s statute at the Louvre museum. The telltale SPQR (“Senatus PopulusQue Romanus”), which stands for the Senate and the People of Rome, is inverted as Hannibal is holding the standard upside down. The deployment of this instrument is a follow-up to the exhibition’s critical approach from which emerges an overdue interrogation of Roman empire and colonization.