Dislocación
18 Mar - 19 Jun 2011
DISLOCACIÓN
Cultural Location and Identity in Times of Globalization
18 March 2011 - 19 June 2011
To celebrate the bicentennial of Chile’s independence, the Swiss Embassy in Santiago invited the Chilean-Swiss artist Ingrid Wildi Merino to organize an exhibition. The outcome, the exhibition project “Dislocacion” – which could already be viewed in Santiago de Chile this fall – will now be also shown in the Kunstmuseum Bern.
It includes works executed and conceived especially for the exhibition by 14 artists from Chile and Switzerland. The works artistically analyze general circumstances under which we live in times of globalization.
Chile is remarkable for its thriving contemporary art scene – something that is definitely worth discovering in Europe. Twenty years after the end of Augusto Pinochet’s dictatorship, artists engage not only with the legacy of this era but also with how the growing excesses of neo-liberal economic policy increasingly impact their everyday life.
Oriented toward the situation in Chile, the works in the exhibition will focus on phenomena that can be observed all over the world: displacement and homelessness as a consequence of global economic and political development, the problems of lacking integration, ignorance of language, unemployment and no prospects for the future, as well as the creative response of populations confronted by these challenges in the third millennium.
Cultural Location and Identity in Times of Globalization
18 March 2011 - 19 June 2011
To celebrate the bicentennial of Chile’s independence, the Swiss Embassy in Santiago invited the Chilean-Swiss artist Ingrid Wildi Merino to organize an exhibition. The outcome, the exhibition project “Dislocacion” – which could already be viewed in Santiago de Chile this fall – will now be also shown in the Kunstmuseum Bern.
It includes works executed and conceived especially for the exhibition by 14 artists from Chile and Switzerland. The works artistically analyze general circumstances under which we live in times of globalization.
Chile is remarkable for its thriving contemporary art scene – something that is definitely worth discovering in Europe. Twenty years after the end of Augusto Pinochet’s dictatorship, artists engage not only with the legacy of this era but also with how the growing excesses of neo-liberal economic policy increasingly impact their everyday life.
Oriented toward the situation in Chile, the works in the exhibition will focus on phenomena that can be observed all over the world: displacement and homelessness as a consequence of global economic and political development, the problems of lacking integration, ignorance of language, unemployment and no prospects for the future, as well as the creative response of populations confronted by these challenges in the third millennium.