Video: American Tourister Suitcases - a monument to globalization
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
For various reasons, tourists from the United States of America are not treated very well in the world. but installation of American Tourister Suitcases, despite its name, is not dedicated at all to this category of travelers, it tells viewers about globalization, the symbol of which is the United States. Each of us carries a baggage of certain knowledge, skills, culture, behavioral stereotypes. And while living, we transmit these phenomena to other people with whom we intersect. The same applies not to individuals, but to entire nations and countries. For example, the United States of America. This state is the most influential in the modern world, which means that it has the largest "baggage".
The installation American Tourister Suitcases, created by a Costa Rican artist named Juan Ortiz-Apuy, is dedicated to this "baggage" that Americans bring to the world. This work represents three suitcases, inside of which there is clearly life. At least, it seems to the audience that something is moving and breathing loudly.
Juan Ortiz-Apuy explains the concept of this work in the following way: “I wanted to explore the idea of mobility and dispersion of human capabilities in the conditions of globalization of the modern world, to draw attention to the absolutely free movement of capital in world markets, leading to the deconstruction of the concept of national identity”.
Hidden inside the "American baggage" are the identities of different peoples of the world, the economies of different countries, different points of view on the same phenomena, the experience of immigrants and the impressions of travelers. All this lurks in the suitcases of "American tourists", sighing and sighing, twitching, but, at the same time, still turning into a single whole. It doesn't matter that the bag itself is made in Taiwan.
However, if the artist Yin Xiuzhen managed to fit a city in a suitcase, then it is not at all surprising that Juan Ortiz-Apuy will fit a whole country there!
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