Index, Kungsbro strand 19, Stockholm, Sweden, 22 Mar 2010
Dora García: I am a judge
Press Release
The work of Spanish artist Dora García explore certain expressions taken from popular culture, processed in real time and through a fictionalized course of events. Fiction becomes García’s one important tool since the artist has no intention of building reconstructions of history, but rather to offer possible scenarios where conventions concerning ethics and morals are being challenged. The walltext I am a judge (1997) describes a scenario with a judge who no longer can separate right from wrong. Such an ambivalence continues to diffuse the motives of what we know as morally and juridically just throughout the entire exhibition. Continue reading ‘The prehistory of The Inadequate: “I am a judge”, Index, Stockholm’
