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Political Political is Anna Boghiguian's work. The Egyptian of Armenian origin, an artist back of everything, Draw by looking at past conflicts that make up to the present, Standed by geopolitical interests that tell us about European colonialism, slave traffic, the inhumanity of politicians, abuses on nature or capitalism. For example, With his drawings made flat sculptures on the Treaty of Versailles signed in the middle of the Spanish flu pandemic or on cotton trade, which made it prospered in colonial societies and promoted capitalism at the expense of exploitation of human beings, the widening of the rich and poor gap and the birth of the United States as a world power. Or with his explanation, In "Viñetas" full of data on centenary paper, of the Egyptian Creation and Nationalization of the Suez Channel, Key in world geopolitics when the Red Sea joined the Mediterranean Sea and allowing sea transport between Europe and Asia without having to surround Africa for the head of Good Hope.
Anna boghiguia. Sometimes, unexpectedly, The present is with the past has five facilities and five series of drawings made from 2015 they explain, from the past, the economic and political challenges of our age. Spreading invisible threads that connect cotton trade, frictions around the Suez Canal, the accumulation of power in few hands and the explosion of capitalism. Or to highlight the role that bees play in agriculture - in danger due to pesticides and climate change - in a large installation made of panels that smell of wax and house a large painted brain, Important theme for the artist because it is here where the picture is formed. You will finish the route by stepping on a large installation made up of vessels and large sails that remind the importance of the "white gold" for the Romans for the Romans., that has served as an antiseptic, to preserve food, work (Hence the word "salary") and acquire slaves. Boghiguian explores economic challenges, global politicians and cultural of our time, makes art with patterns of the past that are repeated (strip, revolution, guerra, empire, colonization) looking for, herself, harmony in a world that sometimes does not understand. S.M.
