Marcelo Expósito
Thursday, 9 July
12:00 Mex – 13:00 EST – 10:00 PST— [19:00 South Africa]
“We dematerialise again”
What relation exists between Rauschenberg erasing De Kooning’s drawing in 1953
and the demolition of colonial statues in the present day by the global anti-racist
movement? In what way are we initiating a new dematerialisation of art in which
there are echoes of Oscar Masotta of 1968, inspired by the Soviet Lissitzy? How does
the social justice tradition connect with the new demands of reparations for the
historical abuses of the capitalist-patriarchal-colonial regime (Suely Rolnik) which is
being proposed in a resounding manner by the fourth global wave of feminism, the
youth movement against the climate emergency and the scream of “I can’t breathe”?
Now that it is evident that the subaltern subject can indeed speak, forcefully, does
the privileged subject have the right to speak of justice?
Marcelo Expósito is an artist, teacher and cultural critic. He has participated in social
movements for democratic radicalisation for three decades and has served as
secretary and representative in the Spanish legislature (Congress of Deputies, 2016-
2019). He has exhibited extensively internationally and he has published books such
as “Walter Benjamin, productivist” (2013) and “Plebeian discourses” (2019).