Zar, c. 1999
Mixed media (watercolour, crayon, marker on paper)
sheet: 40.5 by 59.5 cm.; 16 by 23 1/2 in.
Private collection
Estimated for 4,000 – 6,000 GBP in Apr 2023
In the cultures of the Horn of Africa and adjacent regions of the Middle East, Zār is the term for a demon or spirit assumed to possess individuals, mostly women, and to cause discomfort or illness. The so-called zār ritual or zār cult is the practice of exorcising such spirits from the possessed individual…
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