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Book Review| December 01 2019 Review: DEMOCRACIA/ORDER DEMOCRACIA/ORDER: Station Museum of Contemporary Art. Houston, Texas: April 27–August 18, 2019. Yoli Terziyska Yoli Terziyska Yoli Terziyska is a London-based arts advisor, writer, and editor. She co-founded KAPSULA Press in 2013, and in summer 2019 launched a series of artist residency projects in Cuba and Bulgaria. She writes articles on contemporary art issues with an interest in art and politics, and edits scholarly articles for academics in the fields of art, political science, and architecture. Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Afterimage (2019) 46 (4): 75–80. https://doi.org/10.1525/aft.2019.464006 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Yoli Terziyska; Review: DEMOCRACIA/ORDER. Afterimage 1 December 2019; 46 (4): 75–80. doi: https://doi.org/10.1525/aft.2019.464006 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All ContentAfterimage Search DEMOCRACIA/ORDER was a solo exhibition that took place earlier this year at the Station Museum of Contemporary Art in Houston, Texas. It featured two series by the Spanish art collective DEMOCRACIA, formed by artists Iván López and Pablo España. The two artists have collaborated since 2006 and have consistently created projects that challenge the sociopolitical status quo. Their practice's hard-left approach aims to confront their audiences with uncomfortable topics such as the failure of democracy, social inequality, mindless consumerism, and the state as an apparatus of oppression, while pointing to our indolent complacency in regard to these issues. One of the series in the exhibition included a three-part operatic film titled ORDER (2018), accompanied by an installation that presented photographs, video stills, placards, and other ephemera borrowed from the performances captured in each part of the film. ORDER was shown alongside works from the installation We Protect You From Yourselves... You do not currently have access to this content.
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