Los Carpinteros at Laznia Centre for Contemporary Arts (Gdansk, Poland)

The artistic duo Los Carpinteros takes part in the collective show Politics: I do not like it, but it likes me, which opens on 12 April at Laznia Centre for Contemporary Arts in Gdansk, Poland. Inspired by a song of a Cuban band Porno para Ricardo, the exhibition’s title plays with the lyric ‘Politics: I do not like it, but it likes me’.

From the periphery of the artistic mainstream, the show addresses different issues of Cuban, Polish and Spanish transition. It studies the processes of social transformation, inward and outward identity construction, and the forms of representation in the context of the hegemony and ubiquity of capitalism. In the course of their adaptation to the new reality, the participating artists have taken a critical look at modern capitalism and proclaimed ‘art a territory of freedom’. This thesis goes beyond merely aesthetic representations and examines in-depth the realms of politics and history. How does art convert itself into a tool of historical analysis and establishes its own territory of political activism and resistance?

For further information visit Laznia Centre for Contemporary Arts’s site.