Since the mid-1990s Yoshua Okón has produced works that explore the complexities of contemporary societies, addressing issues such as reality and fiction, power and authority, and social stereotypes, among others. His artistic practice - which blends video, installation, and performance - aims to mirror the constructed ideas of society. But Okón's work does not only operate as a vehicle of simple reflection: his video installations render and project social paradigms and cast light on the numerous nuanced negotiations that take place within today's complex social web of ethical and political implications.
The works selected for this exhibition speak to the complexities of today's social web of intertwined forces of power, ethics, and politics. Additionally, they exemplify Okón's use of an array of aesthetic strategies that articulate a discourse that moves back-and-forth from the particular to the general and succeeds in engaging the viewer as a central figure in the production of critical observation.
This exhibition illustrates Okón's ability to shift the established negotiation and production strategies within the art world, effectively mirroring the complexities and implications of circulation and transaction systems within today's frameworks of exchange. Each piece dissects the known structures of power, ethics and politics by employing a variety of mechanisms that flirt with humor, vulgarity, and predetermined categories of reality and fiction.
SUBTITLE, was presented from February 22 to April 27, 2008.
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