Painting truth to power

From Robert Mugabe to Camilla Parker-Bowles, the targets of Mob Rule share the posture of power.
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Tony Garifalakis, Untitled from Mob rule (Family) 2014, enamel on C Type prints, 60 cm x 40 cm each. Courtesy of the artist and Hugo Michell Gallery

The visual language of the official portrait is one with which we are all subconsciously familiar: the straight posture and raised chin of the royal is not so very different from the military bearing of a dictator or the expansive gestures of the electoral winner.

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