︎︎︎[THE MILITANT BREAK]
*Levi Orta (CUB/ESP) y *Luis
Gómez (CUB)
october 27, 2022
Two Cuban artists who fifteen years ago were teacher and student at the Higher Institute of Art in Havana, met again in Madrid and, as if it were a final class where both are student and teacher, are collaborating on a new project. In this presentation, they discussed five of their individual projects and shared their most recent joint endeavour. The artists offered Cuban mojitos to the attendees.
*Levi Orta (CUB/ESP) investigates the creative component of politics by reproducing mechanisms, strategies, and
protocols used by politicians. His goal is to highlight, from a cynical, ironic, and satirical stance, the most
subversive tone of these behaviours. Copying, appropriation, editing, archiving, camouflage and instrumentalisation are tools he regularly uses to reveal, through an apparent calm, scandalous topics inherent in political practices. www.ortalevi.blogspot.com
The recent work of *Luis Gómez (CUB) is a look at certain power relations that are generated in the art circuit, recording inconsistencies between producers, consumers, and promoters of artistic production. It is a personal effort to show some stereotypes and manipulations of the art system. It locates consensuses and stereotypes that impose a hegemonic vision. In short, his work rests on a look at the politics of art and the inconsistencies between its
discourses and methods.
https://obraluisgomez.blogspot.com/p/recent-workobra-reciente.html