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We are your future
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This show, entitled “We Are Your Future,” will feature Chinese and Latin American artists who are concerned with issues of identity and imposed internationalism. Their works explore exoticism in the context of an all-encompassing globalism that subsumes cultural difference. Part of the show’s undertaking is to address the problem of maintaining a particular identity in the face of the cliché of uniformity.
The historically marginalized areas of China and Latin America have produced a new crop of artists poised to enter the art world’s mainstream. The exhibition will give voice to a varied group of artists, who stand at the crossroads of major shifts in attitudes toward previously neglected cultures.
The Chinese artists in “We Are Your Future” do not see their present economic and cultural positions as purely beneficial, yet they recognize China’s status as a rising world power, occupying a position of strength rather than weakness. One component of the exhibition is Jiang Zhi’s video of actors impersonating Mao, Deng, and Zheng Zhimin, reminding us of the absurdity of the cult of personality in a culture where anonymity was traditionally the proscribed means of existence.
The Latin American component of “We Are Your Future” also features newly energized artists. For example, Alexandre Arrechea’s tree-shaped sculpture with cameras in its branches shows why we no longer trust the government in an age when Orwell’s prophecy of the Big Brother has come to pass.
These artists, heirs to a legacy pushed aside by the Eurocentric, imperialist attitudes of the West, are now ready to make their mark in economics, politics and culture.
chinese artists
- Xu Bing
- Wang Guangyi
- Sui Jianguo
- Fang Lijun
- Yue Minjun
- Yan Lei Ai Weiwei
- Chen Wenbo
- Liu Xiaodong
- Yin Xuizhen and Song Dong
- Huang Yan
- Peng Yu and Sun Yuan
- Qiu Zhijie
latin american artists
- Carlos Amorales
- Alexandre Arrechea
- Tania Bruguera
- Jota Castro
- Marcos Ramirez ERRE
- Regina Jose Galindo
- Charles Juhasz-Alvarado
- Oswaldo Macia
- Fabian Marcaccio
- Teresa Margolles
- Daniel Joseph Martinez
- Ivan Navarro
- Eduardo Sarabia
- Santiago Sierra
- Javier Tellez
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- Gu Dexin
- Song Dong
- Yang Fudong
- Wang Gongxin
- Zhang Peili
- Zhou Xiaohu
- Jiang Zhi
 A full-length article about the project will be in the catalogue of the 2nd Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art which is
coming out on the 1st March.
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