Viva la revolución - Limited Edition of 5 Photograph

POLITICAL REALITY A few years ago, I had the pleasure of speaking with the Turkish Nobel Laureate in Literature, Orhan Pamuk. He said that all major works of art today are political - and that it is the political works that will cope with the transmission of history. These are the ones who will be remembered. The rest will remain in the spirit of the times in which they were created. I asked him when a work is political. He replied that it is when a work changes the status of the one who sees the work. It takes some time to reflect on what Pamuk said. Once it has embedded itself, then it begins to make sense. When a work reaches a political status, it means that the spectator begins to change attitude. It changes the way we look at everything that goes on behind the work. The scenography, the country, the political government, the health system, the education system, the reality. All this is hidden in the analysis of the image - but only if the image allows it. Per Valentin's portraits from Cuba are capable of that. Everything. They are brutal, they are dystopian - they embrace realism, absurdities and expressionism. They are highly political, they are fiercely compromising for a nation that, as one of the last naive, dictatorial states, must recognize that the world around it has evolved explosively while standing still. Completely quiet. I experience reality pass the faces. Behind the toothless lady is the future, the boy. However, he has no future in a toothless society. I see the old man with the dollar bills in his hand - the forbidden currency that gives him status in the new world, of which he is not a part. I feel the inconsolability of the old man sitting on his pedigree - where you see the poster with the text "Sublime Ilusion". The sublime illusion. Like a picture of a Cuba that, in the midst of beauty and ideals, has lost itself. I smile at the man in the open door surrounded by Fidel's portrait, which stands as a dreamy protest, a little escape out of this world together with the clouds that are wiping out Fidel's story. The focus is sharp on the clenched, wrinkled faces. The faces tell the story. So do the facades, the smashed scenography that confronts the old Cubans every day. A country, an ideology in disintegration. Per Valentin's pictures allow that analysis, and thus they change the status of the audience. Søren Høy 2011 Screenwriter and film director

Photography:Color on Paper

Artist Produced Limited Edition of:5

Size:20.3 W x 20.3 H x 0 D in

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