© Romuald Hazoumé
La Bouche du Roi
Artist: Romuald Hazoumé (born 1962)
Location: British Museum
Date: 1997-2000
Materials: oil drums & various media
Dimensions: 10 x 2.9cm
Grant:
Amount Paid: £30,000 (Total: £100,000)
Vendor: Elisabeth Lalouscheck
Review number: 5741 (2006)
Provenance:
The artist; The October Gallery.
Description:
La Bouche du Roi is a multi-media installation, the main components of which are 304 'masks' made from black plastic petrol cans, a CD of sounds and voices, and a short film detailing the lives of motorcyclists who run petrol between Bénin and Nigeria, a form of modern day slavery. The shape of the installation is based on a famous 18th-century print of the British slave ship, the Brookes, a model of which Wilberforce used in his campaign for abolition. The artist uses cans to suggest the bodies of slaves portrayed in the print.
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