Tales To Entertain The Dead – Vol.1 – Penis witch and lost lovers by Nehama.

Everything starts with a story. This book too : “One day, of the coast of Kenya, I found a sacred bottle lying in the bush. Inside it was a cobra snake holding a big black scorpio its teeth with sacred roots & plants at the bottom. It looked like a cursed work of art. I made an oath to follow that bottle to heaven or hell.

That’s how it all started really. Fatal magic.”

Penis enlargement leaflets and tabloid advertising posters are ubiquitous in big bad Johannesburg and most towns in South Africa. It has become an identifier & a marker of space.
Their basic & brazen graphic design as effective as accidental art can be.Visually, the inner city is a web of Dadaist messages that offer an array of miracles & horrors at every street corner.

Limited signed edition

Published in 2020 - 128 pages - Texts in English

About the artist :

Nehama is a French artist, born in Casablanca (Morocco) in 1962. He currently lives between Paris & Johannesburg. Nehama body of work is inspired by Africa, its culture, beliefs, strong visual and spiritual landscape. By using collages, texts, vintage textures, he creates a language of the strange that can at times be disturbing but also translate into poetic representations of transcendent forces.