Project with the tag: London

    • Occidental Totems

    2011, HD video 16:9, color with sound, 15 minutes, on omnimount stands

    Occidental Totems immerses the viewer into the life of a controversial artist: Jacob Epstein (1880-1959), mentor of Henry Moore, who will narrate the story of the statues he carved on the facade of the old Zimbabwe Embassy in London. The primitivist figures depicted a deviant humanity but got mutilated by the colonial power. In a fictional shift, Epstein who praised this exotic “other” seems to enter into a trance himself: the statues talk to him and give an account of a new radical reading of history.

    • The Tombstone Where Karl Marx Was Buried, Highgate Cemetery, London 1883 – The Chalk Cliff Where The Ashes Of Friedrich Engels Were Scattered, Eastbourne 1895 – The Erection Of The New Tomb Of Karl Marx, Highgate Cemetery, London 1956 – The Taking Down Of The Statue Of Stalin With Chalk Marks On His Face, Budapest 1956

    2010, 4 framed color pictures, 50 x 50 cm each

    “The tombstone where (…)” is a work which conflate two notions of personification. The way materialist philosophers such as Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels chose to face death according to their convictions, and how their legacy has been diluted through time by the construction and deconstruction of memorial and official worshipping.

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