Land Disputing in Port Vila

Item number 3005/1 from the MOA: University of British Columbia.

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Description

Large horizontally rectangular painting. At the left of the composition are two male figures with brown skin fighting beside a case full of gold coins, while a male with pink skin and a white hat walks away from them at the right of centre. All three figures have shell-like heads. The right end of the painting has a wide grey stripe with four red rectangles and eight brown squares arranged in a vertical, linear pattern. Artist initials(?) or symbols and date painted at the bottom right, along the base of the tree.

Iconographic Meaning

Ambong's painting "Land Disputing in Port Vila" looks at the negative effects of land alienation on social cohesion by depicting two brothers arguing over money whilst the property developer walks away with the rights to their family land.