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Economy and violence in contemporary art
The exhibition “Economies” enters into a debate of great current interest. In dealing with the theme – economy and violence – the artists taking part have created works that are somewhere between social and informative projects, escaping every aesthetic and definition as well as the return to an ironic and disenchanted narrative.
Alongside projects executed outside the exhibition (such as the nomadic surgery of the WochenKlausur) and work with a journalistic slant (on G8 at Genoa in the work of Alterazioni Video; on social inequality by Dominic Hislop and Miklos Erhardt), a narrative trend emerges with surrealist traits that develops the central theme with a metaphorical approach, such as in the film made from weaving together micro-stories by American Jonah Freeman or the video Mary’s cherries by Israeli artist Mika Rottemberg. F.C.
