
Esiri Erheriene-Essi
Having Your Cake and Eating it Too
2019
Details
Type
Painting
Material and technique
Oil, ink and xerox transfer on linen
Subject
Painting; group portrait
Dimensions
200 x 165 cm
Identifier
msch 2025-7
Source
Frans Hals Museum, Haarlem
About the artwork
A moment of celebration as the cake is cut at a birthday party. In the background are archive images of the Windrush generation, who emigrated from the Caribbean to the United Kingdom after the Second World War. On invitation by the British government, to rebuild the broken nation. In 2018, the British citizenship of their descendants was questioned. The title of this artwork refers to this: you can’t have everything.