Political World | Mundo Político
Glenda León
Galeria SENDA, Barcelona
- Title
- Political World | Mundo Político
- Gallery
- Galeria SENDA, Barcelona
- Year
- 2025
- Duration
- 9 min 44 s
- Format & Technical
B Single channel video, 4:3
- Contact
- Courtesy of the artist, Glenda León
The world is becoming increasingly polarized to the point where common sense often seems lost. In this video, I take both left- and right-wing extremes to the edge of absurdity: first, everything moves to the left; then, the same images shift to the right. It’s unnatural, sometimes even impossible in real life and that’s precisely the point: to highlight the absurdity of the moment we’re living through. At the same time, the work suggests that everything is relative: depending on your point of view, the direction of movement can be interpreted in entirely opposite ways. Through this visual irony, I reflect the distorted state we currently find ourselves in.
I asked AI: “How would it be a world where everything goes only from right to left?”. Its responses presented as a voiceover ― add another layer to this scenario, as complex as it is fascinating, where remarkable progress coexists with aspects that deserve deeper questioning.
Glenda León
- Artist
1976, Havana
Glenda León (La Havana, 1976) is a visual artist based in La Havana and Madrid. Her work expands from drawing to video art, including installation, objects, and photography. She is interested in revealing antagonisms, in interstices between visible and invisible, between sound and silence, between ephemeral and eternal. Her work encourages the viewer to approach the object from a poetical perspective. This way, she reveals the metaphoric part of everyday life objects. The constancy of the absence in all superfluous elements and the fusion of natural and artificial elements demonstrate the author’s taste for the persistence of processes. Her works transition within the intimate and public sphere, which manifests her ability of create new meanings to these objects through a process of manipulation, contextualization, and object association.
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