Gaddafi daughter’s art, painted in slain Libyan leader’s honour, unveiled in Moscow show
‘These pictures are painted with my heart,’ says Aisha Gaddafi, 47, at the opening of exhibition in a Russian state museum in Moscow
A Russian state museum is mounting an exhibition of artwork by the daughter of slain Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, dedicated to her father’s memory.
Aisha Gaddafi, 47, is the fifth child and only biological daughter of the dictator who ruled the North African country from 1969 until he was captured and killed in 2011 by rebels during the Nato-backed uprising that toppled him.
On October 18, the State Museum of Oriental Art in Moscow opened a six-week exhibition of dozens of her artworks, including a painting of a crowd hovering over the corpses of her father and her brother who was killed alongside him. The painting shows members of the crowd using smartphones to snap pictures of the bodies.
“Today, I show these works for the first time to honour my father and my brother on the anniversary of their deaths,” she said ahead of the opening. “I can tell you that these pictures are painted not with my hand, but with my heart.”
Aisha Gaddafi fled Libya during the uprising in 2011. The family says her husband and two of her children were killed in Nato air strikes and bombings of the Gaddafi compound in Tripoli.
