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Glue Boys and Blind Justice

Diane Victor. Glue Boys and Blind Justice from Disasters of Peace. 2001–03

Diane Victor (South African, born 1964; lives Halfway House, Gauteng). Glue Boys and Blind Justice from Disasters of Peace. 2001-03. Two from a portfolio of sixteen etching, aquatint, and drypoints with roulette. Plate (each): 8 7/16 x 11 9/16" (21.5 x 29.3 cm); sheet (each): 14 x 15 11/16" (35.6 x 39.8 cm). Publisher: the artist, Pretoria. Printer: the artist at University of Pretoria. Edition: 25. The Ralph E. Shikes Fund, 2005. © 2011 Diane Victor

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Victor capitalizes on the narrative possibilities of intaglio in her searing Disasters of Peace series, an ongoing project begun in 2001 and inspired by Francisco de Goya’s historic cycle of etchings Disasters of War (1810–20). To date, there are more than thirty prints in Victor’s series. Its surreal, nightmarish compositions are based on media coverage of recent events in South Africa, calling attention to the everyday disasters that are apartheid’s legacy.