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\"FKV_Sassolino_Untitled_2006-7_1\" Sassolino, Untitled, 2006-7, FKV<\/p>\n

How interdependent are power and violence? \u201cMechanisms of Power,\u201d an exhibition now on display\u00a0at the Frankfurter Kunstverein, exhibits the two as difficult to separate. The show brings together the work of Guatemalan artist Regina Jos\u00e9 Galindo and Italian based Arcangelo Sassolino.
\nA feeling of scepticism filled me prior to arriving, as I generally find myself annoyed with the seriousness,\u00a0the borrowed importance and the deadening realism of political art. I also have a problem with art history\u2019s tendency to reduce women to the naked body, whereas male artists are given the ability to show off their rational tools. While \u201cMechanisms of Power\u201d includes all of the above,\u00a0I must say that it made me feel strangely challenged, wondering if there are maybe some assumptions too comfortable living inside my own head.
\nVisually, the artworks of Regina Jos\u00e9 Galindo and Arcangelo Sassolino couldn\u2019t be more different. Each artist has their own space in the gallery, creating a feeling of two separate solo exhibitions. \u201cEach of the elements I utilise in my work are functional but put together they create an aesthetic,\u201d Sassolino says of his mechanical and minimal installations. His work is huge in size as well as intensity and impact, with works including a stack of wood slowly bent and straightened, a set of glass bottles catapulted to the other side of the room and a dislocated claw of an excavator bouncing on a stone floor.<\/p>\n

\"FKV_Sassolino_Purgatory_2016_2\" Sassolino, Purgatory, FKV<\/p>\n

 
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\"FKV_Sassolino_Afasia Sassolino, Afasia 1, 2008, FKV<\/p>\n

 
\nArcangelo Sassolino explains his intentions to physically and mentally bring the spectator into another level. Though safety measures have been implemented for physical protection, crashing bottles and scratching claws create an unpredictability of movement that proves psychologically unbearable.
\nAlternatively, Regina Jos\u00e9 Galindo\u2019s art is an execution she arranges for herself, almost like a sacrifice. The artist\u2019s work invites onlookers to gawk as she lies nude in the fetal position under a plexiglass dome. In order to fully comprehend this performance, viewers must familiarise themselves with the violent climate of Guatemala, which includes a 35 year-long civil war and continues today with startlingly high murder rates among women.\u00a0Afterwards, it\u2019s no longer her body there, it\u2019s a corpse, and you as the onlooker are the one walking off.<\/p>\n

\"Galindo\" Galindo, installation view, FKV<\/p>\n

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\"FKV_Galindo_Nadie Galindo, Nadie atraviesa la regi\u00f3n sin ensuciarse, 2015, FKV<\/p>\n

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\"FKV_Galindo_La Galindo, La verdad, 2013, FKV<\/p>\n

 
\nGalindo\u2019s performances tend to have a dramatic flair. One piece shows Galindo as anaesthetics are injected in her mouth while she recites testimonies of indigenous women from the genocide trial of 2013. As it becomes harder and harder to speak, the artist refuses to be silenced, much like the witnesses she references.\u00a0\u201cESTOY VIVA\u201d it says in capital letters at the entrance of the exhibition.\u00a0Blood appears repeatedly in Galindo\u2019s performances, underlining bell hooks\u2019 exclamation: \u201cDead bodies do not bleed.\u201d The artist herself says it\u2019s meant \u201cas a cleansing, after war.\u201d The image of a martyr comes to mind, but Galindo says she has no intention of being neither an angel nor an activist. She is an artist.
\nIn \u201cMechanisms of Power,\u201d Galindo and Sassolino each explore the interaction between mind and body as well as the traces left behind by the perverse combination of power and violence. Their works are like an instrument \u00ad\u00ad\u00adwith its strings wound too tight – neither are able to create harmony – and luckily for Galindo and Sassolino, they\u2019re okay with that.
\n\u201cMechanisms of Power\u201d is at Frankfurter Kunstverein<\/a> until 17 May 2016<\/strong><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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