Yes, let's see how many of you are up to a good protest. I know people who have been in protest mode all their lives and no matter what they are protesting against, as long as they can protest.
Ok, jokes aside, there will be no protest here, but I'd like to invite you to have a look at some artworks that I photographed at an exhibition that had as theme "Protest". I hope you have read my previous posts about the exhibition. If not, there's still time to check them out here and here. Today I'd like to show you the rest of the photos, hoping I can inspire you to start creating art. Or just offer you an unforgettable tour of some exceptional artworks.
Marta - Claudia Junc - Spectators Of Other People's Lives
The amount of difficulty I had to face here is unbelievable, so please try to see what the artist wanted to show us and disregard reflection, glare and the crazy angle of my photo.
It is a cry against complicity through silence. The work becomes a moral mirror: we find ourselves in front of the scene and our choice is whether to remain indifferent or become defenders of human fragility.
I understand what the artist is saying, but somehow I can't connect with the artwork in any way. Usually I have an opinion and my understanding of what I'm seeing, but not in this case, so I'll leave this to you. Tell me what you see of how you see it.
Marta - Claudia Junc - Like the Last Judgment - The Judgment of Your Kind
The work represents a visual protest against the tendency to judge others. The work is constructed as a theater of faces, an ensemble of overlapping and closed-in gazes, which dominate the center of the composition like a courtroom.
Most likely this artwork means a different thing for those who believe in afterlife and believe the final judgement is going to take place after death. I don't, so I just judge what I see and I like it. It's a very complex work and concept.
Dalma Nagy - Elder Tree's Protest
As I said at the beginning of my post, the topic of the exhibition was Protest and nature's protest is the most expressive in my opinion. You can see in what form or shape nature usually protests, if you go to the countryside and see abandoned houses, establishments.
There's a certain beauty in these scenes, as the man made constructions are covered by green and destroyed completely in time. It's basically nature taking back what belongs to them.
Borbála Bíró - Mimetic Landscape
This time I'll skip the official explanation as it was so complex and academic. I'll leave this to you, tell me what you see and what the protest is here.
Mihai Stoica - Migrants Out, Plants Out, Beliefs Out
This was a series of three photos, each one wonderful in its own way. Apologies for the angles and reflections.
Looking back, I realize how different this exhibition was compared to the rest. I mean each exhibition is different as both the artists and the artworks are different each time, but this, somehow was ... "more different". Each work had a very deep meaning and because you had a short explanation from the artist, it made you think deeper.
We tend to wrap ourselves in our own bubble and live in our own world, so seeing a different angle of the world, from the artist's perspective, puts your mind in motion.
Nicoleta Nicolaescu - #Women, Not Objects
The work constitutes a protest against the objectification of women, against treating them as sexual objects, as simple physical parts or as personal property with which you can do whatever you want, even take their lives.
In the context of the events of the last year, when over 30 women lost their lives killed by their partners, it is necessary to adopt a femicide law against gender violence.
The slogan of the protests in recent months in Bucharest and around the country, "When the state is silent, women die" could just as easily be the title of this work.
This is a heavy one and maybe the most important of the exhibition. The message that this artwork brings is a powerful one. This is a pressing matter and unfortunately there's never enough done in this regard. Developed countries have strict legislation but even so, as the artist and the record says, women are dying each day because this type of crime is not taken seriously enough. How many were murdered with a restriction order in their hand, because the police didn't take them seriously. Imagine what life is for women in countries where they have no rights at all.
After leaving the exhibition, I was thinking about how many forms protest can have. As a human being, you can voice your protest, you can put it on paper, make a banner and protest with it in silence, or refuse something, or choose not to attend and protest with removing your presence ... etc. The list is long but artists see things differently and here you have a snippet of their vision and thinking.
Let me know which one is your favorite and why.
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