Khaled DAWWA, Tyrant Figures. 18 Bronze sculptures.
Figures of tyranny
In a few years and through hard work and reflection, Khaled Dawwa has succeeded in developing a style like no other, a powerful and controlled personal expressionism. His original edition bronzes are not simple identical copies, but real unique pieces, each one being worked, chiseled and patinated by the artist, who spends long weeks in isolation at the foundry.
Through his 18 bronze sculptures, Khaled Dawwa erects the figures of men of power who have become tyrants, eaten away by their will to power. Fat, deformed men, sunk on thrones, with closed faces, insensitive and brutal dictators.
Khaled Dawwa’s sculptures show the violence of power, its ugliness and its perversion; a dominant male figure, who has become obese due to his greed. They are riddled with holes, the bodies are damaged, as necrotic. Deadly for those who suffer it, the abuse of power is also deadly for those who exercise it, as if seized by the physical impossibility of extracting themselves from a throne too small for them and condemned to progressive decomposition.
“The holes you see in my works, almost like shrapnel, are the result of my expression of fragility, of wear and tear. They were, at one point, my only outlet for my personal frustrations at the corruption and devastation that surrounded me, and my own helplessness in the face of those responsible for it. I spent long hours perforating sculptures. »
However, nothing can be done, despite all these holes that deform them, the sick of power remain clinging to their seats. "They are the image of a fragile power, which will not fall rapidly. Hope exists, but it is still uncertain and distant.
