Pièta By William Zitte and Antoine du Vigneaux

Painting: acrylic on sacking, 1992

In homage to the artist William Zitte, the Memorial room of the slave hospital will open out for one of his works : Piéta, created with Antoine Du Vignaux for the exhibition Tet Kaf/Fet Kaf, which was held at the Villèle Museum in 1993.

“Pièta presents a ‘spiritual African’ who could well represent the third possible way forward, replacing the ‘Faithful African’ subjected through pain and abnegation and the ‘Rebellious African’, whose weapons stoke the continuously burning embers.”