Edition 2015
Artist presented by Fannie Escoulen
Julián Barón
Régime Visuel
In order to create a world favourable
to themselves, the representatives
of power stimulate the public by means of visual marketing techniques.
They configure ‘seeing’ through political hegemony, institutional execution, urban advertising, and the use of mass media; agents infiltrating our homes.
We find ourselves submerged
in a technological era where we absorb and re-project images like signal repeaters. The photographs and videos that we consume and create make us a part of the regime. We are witnesses to and extras in the image
of our time.
While C.E.N.S.U.R.A. is a visual variation across the Spanish political landscape, Tauromaquia explores
the mechanisms of social control
in motion, whereby authoritarianism
is legitimised by use of police demonstration.
The third and related work, Los últimos días vistos del rey, is a description
of the political caste that, with almost unchanging rituals, has dominated Spain for the last forty years.
Julián Barón
Julián Barón
Prints by Picto, Paris.
Exhibition venue: Grande Halle, parc des Ateliers.