Collage and mixed media on appropriated images + Photographs
Variable dimensions
2018
The title of the work refers to the performance of Joseph Beuys in New York City, in 1974: “I like America and America likes me". Locked up for 3 days in a gallery room with a coyote, Beuys wanted to deliver a critique on the Vietnam War and the political divisions in that country.
Bringing together a series of collages plus a series of photographs realized along the time, in a recent setup, the present work is the result of observation of the interaction between visitors and European classic art. At the same time, it is an attempt to comment on the racial and neocolonial split between European politics and its cannonic ideals of beauty and harmony.
The French sociologist Pierre Bourdieu asserted that, despite the fact that European museums are accessible to all individuals, they are restricted to a certain segment of the populace. He is talking about the class division that sets art apart from the lives of most people. What is the role of art to transform the world in the face of recent humanitarian crises and the general confusion in values and politics in the current Europe? As the art critic Ariella Azoulay stated in her work Potential History, "Art was the primordial terrain of imperialism", and it is still representative of power and societal contradictions today.
Bringing together a series of collages plus a series of photographs realized along the time, in a recent setup, the present work is the result of observation of the interaction between visitors and European classic art. At the same time, it is an attempt to comment on the racial and neocolonial split between European politics and its cannonic ideals of beauty and harmony.
The French sociologist Pierre Bourdieu asserted that, despite the fact that European museums are accessible to all individuals, they are restricted to a certain segment of the populace. He is talking about the class division that sets art apart from the lives of most people. What is the role of art to transform the world in the face of recent humanitarian crises and the general confusion in values and politics in the current Europe? As the art critic Ariella Azoulay stated in her work Potential History, "Art was the primordial terrain of imperialism", and it is still representative of power and societal contradictions today.
