Welcome to Iraq<\/em>, me vienen a la mente im\u00e1genes de guerra. De cuando los Estados Unidos invadieron el pa\u00eds en 2003, o de cuando mataron a Saddam Hussein en 2006. Pero el comisario Jonathan Watkins advierte: esto es sobre la nueva Irak. <\/p>\nY a esto se debe referir: a los 11 artistas que presenta la South London Gallery, que el a\u00f1o pasado representaron a Irak en la Bienal de Venecia, y que viven y trabajan en ese pa\u00eds. La exposici\u00f3n recoge el amplio abanico de disciplinas y temas con los que \u00e9stos trabajan. Hay pintura costumbrista, y grafitti sobre lienzo; instalaciones con objetos encontrados y cr\u00edticas con el descuido del medioambiente; esculturas que asemejan al pa\u00eds con vasijas rotas; c\u00f3mic sat\u00edrico.<\/p>\n
Algunos cr\u00edticos incluso se han sorprendido con esa supuesta novedad, que han tildado de apol\u00edtica, de “enso\u00f1aci\u00f3n despolitizada”, muy poco comprometida con la situaci\u00f3n pol\u00edtica actual. <\/p>\n
Pero la exposici\u00f3n del la galer\u00eda del sur de Londres es poco menos que no comprometida, y bastante menos novedosa. No hay m\u00e1s que ver las obras del dibujante de vi\u00f1etas Abdul Raheem Yassir, en las que, por ejemplo, representa a un artista pintando sobre el lienzo el retrato en vivo de una bomba. O el audiovisual que deja patente cu\u00e1n f\u00e1cil es conseguir una AK47 estos d\u00edas. Pero sobre todo la serie Saddam is here<\/em>, de Jamal Penjweny. Fotos tomadas a iraqu\u00edes en su vida cotidiana, mientras se cubren la cara con uno de los retratos m\u00e1s medi\u00e1ticos de Saddam Hussein. “\u00bfSi mi trabajo como artista es pol\u00edtico?… Ll\u00e1malo como quieras”, me contest\u00f3 cuando le pregunt\u00e9, en una conversaci\u00f3n por Skype. “Saddam is here<\/em> es un trabajo sobre la dictadura despu\u00e9s de la muerte del dictador. Porque no se puede dar el salto a la democracia s\u00f3lo matando al l\u00edder del anterior r\u00e9gimen. Hoy puedes ver a Saddam, con otras caras, otros nombres”. Y eso es tambi\u00e9n lo que se ve, hasta el 1 de junio, en la South London Gallery: aunque con pretensiones de algo diferente, una Irak menos nueva.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Con solo leer Welcome to Iraq, me vienen a la mente im\u00e1genes de guerra. De cuando los Estados Unidos invadieron el pa\u00eds en 2003, o de cuando mataron a Saddam…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1286,"featured_media":15480,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6783],"tags":[5473],"coauthors":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n
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