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Bee Flowers. Liberation
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- Moscow Museum of Modern Art
- DI Magazine
project description
“Liberation!”, a project by the Dutch artist Bee Flowers was triggered by a specific informational impulse - the photos from the Iraqi prison Abu Ghraib. The result of the artist's efforts is a series of large-scale collages and computer generated artworks, with clear origins in the history of postmodern art, and a structure of multi-layered cultural and historical codes. Where connections to historical pop art collages can be traced, we see that in these new works, however, the images of consumerist abundance have been replaced with an aesthetic sparring of violence and humiliation.
The deepening rift between the West and the world of Islam on the issue of gender roles has become the central theme of the “Liberation!” project. Through a conscious withdrawal from any geopolitical camp, the artist, as author of the message, strives to stray in the neutral zone between the known stereotypical notions of the subjectivity of the artist and the objectivity of the philosopher. The authorial intent to let go of a unified point of view and to not display a belonging to one or another side, importantly connects with the self-identification of the project “Liberation!”: how is one to tell original from parody, when the presented form leaves no traces of montage between artistic and documentary images?
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