On that occasion, I had the chance to visit spaces dedicated to contemporary art and meet local artists in their studios.
A pink glace slice of cake with a radiant smile. As we began to talk about her work, a strange world of funny and silly characters referring to cynicism and grotesque aspects of our society opened up.
A desire to confront and face the harsh and sad reality that lurks behind a keyboard in our daily lives became apparent. Of course, the experiential quality of a performance cannot be replicated.
She uses a vast flow of characters, props and a melting pot of sounds, words and images. Society is constantly changing due to global economic and political events and the relentless development of technology that is part of our lives. In some of her stories parents or adults could be seen exhibiting their children on social media by offering little innocent creatures as if they were meat grinders, little girls pretending to be models, children dancing on command, no longer for their family, for their friends or at the end-of-year party, but for the unfathomable gazes of unknown users.
Can the childhood of an innocent child, filmed in funny videos by condescending adults, hide a future criminal, a murderer, or a rapist? What remains of those images? Do they remain victims of their child-type image on social media? The key question, however, is how will this found footage affect the next generation. The answer, of course, is not simple and probably impossible to predict. As Mark Fisher reports, crisis and the political system have deprived us of perspectives, absorbing our imagination and filling it with its ideology until we no longer know how to imagine a future that is not infused and polluted by the ideology of capitalism.
