AFARENSIS 2014 human evaluation

In the next exhibition Afarensis 2014 inspired by the paleoanthropologist theories, there will be 20 portraits of people from different ethnicities done on oil painting, each with a different skin tone. 

Short for Australopithecus afarensis, the afarensis is a hominid that shares ancestry with humans. These interesting beings walked this planet more than 3 million years ago. They have been made famous by Donald Johanson in 1974 when he dug up the first fossilized skeleton of a female which he named Lucy in present day Ethiopia.

The exhibition will also include more works from the artist Asad Bunashi such as painting, installation art and video art.

"On hearing, one June afternoon in 1860, the suggestion that mankind was descended from the apes, the wife of the Bishop of Worcester is said to have exclaimed, ‘My dear, descended from the apes! Let us hope it is not true, but if it is, let us pray that it will not become generally known.’ As it turns out, she need not have been quite so worried: we are not descended from the apes, though we do share a common ancestor with them. Even though the distinction may have been too subtle to offer her much comfort, it is nevertheless important. "