PEQUOD

This is about a tribulation, people who have been dragged to the horror of destiny, of uncertainty, of hell. We will have them in our hearts forever.

In my work, I approach the influence of politics on affective relationships and the construction of perception through centralized power. Beginning with stereotyped shapes of ideology and moving through manipulated historiographies, power gives rise to the normalization of such phenomena and the role of the cult of the leader. The approach is in the "politicization of the affective" as a generator of "philias" between subjects of the same ethnic group or social class, creating a unity to the detriment of empathy as an oppressor of difference and individual freedoms.

Raychel Carrión (Havana, Cuba 1978) graduated in 2011 from the Institute of Superior Arts in Havana, Cuba (ISA), and studied with Arte de Conducta​ from 2006-2008, Tania Bruguera's workshop​ on behavioral and political art.

Artist A4