Devil Playing With Human

This singular work portrays a devil toying with a human.  The human's tortured stone form writhes while it is weighted to the ground, the devils fork aimed above. The devil, with horns on his head and eyes that might be masked, appears to smirk in control. He is a stranger figure altogether, composed of both bone and stone. While less defined, the devil's form implies both mystery and a supernatural power.

Serpentine stone, bone
Approx. 20 x 14 x 20cm
Reg no. 7515N

Pitsiulaq (Pitseolak) Qimirpik 1982- is a young Cape Dorset carver who’s quickly established himself as both apprentice (his father is renowned Dorset carver Kelly Qimirpik) and contemporary artist. Indeed, Qimirpik has successfully distinguished himself through this very juxtaposition, marrying pop-culture signifiers with traditional carving. He sits at the helm of a surging generation of Inuit artists who are reconfiguring their position onto history, traditional media, and narrative figuration. It’s a group who’s establishing itself through an aesthetic more easily situated in the contemporary artworld, while never fully divorced from its ancestral associations and formal base. Qimirpik, like so many of his contemporaries, continues to make the link between the two.