Annie PETYARRE

Flowers at Enteebra , 2014

Art : Aboriginal
Origine : Utopia
Dimensions : 90 x 120 cm
Medium : Acrylic on canvas
Price : VENDUE / SOLD
N° : 3582

In this painting, Annie evokes the site of Enteebra where the sacred cave of Arowilya is most likely to be found, where women from the Kngwarreye and Petyarre family groups gather each summer to celebrate the “legend of the two sisters”.

These mythical sisters were pursued by Alert, a man who wanted to seduce them while he was part of the same clan, that of the Kngwarreye. He was thus violating a law established to avoid problems of consanguinity among the peoples of the Australian Central Desert. The two women escaped from him by taking refuge in the cave of Arowilya where Pareeja, the Serpent Woman of Night, protected them.