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#Belgium
#Ivan Argote
#public artwork
#sculpture
April 15, 2024
Kate Mothes
A pair of sizable bronze boots have paused in a Bruges canal, the whereabouts of their proprietor unknown. The hanging bronze sculpture titled “Who?” by Ivan Argote seems as if an 18th-century statue has been shorn on the knees, inviting hypothesis in regards to the wearer’s id.
Argote’s work references the toppling of monuments depicting these with ties to colonialism, seen at this time as memorializing darkish legacies of human enslavement, violence, and abuses of energy. Belgium has an extended and brutal colonial historical past, primarily in Africa. “Monuments are scars in our cities and reminiscences, typically telling us of a historical past of dominations and humiliations,” the artist says. “It’s as much as us to reclaim the precise to create new narratives and heal the injuries of our violent histories.”
“Who?” is a part of Triënnale Brugge, which continues by September 1. Argote can even current an out of doors sculpture within the Giardini for the sixtieth Annual Venice Biennale. Discover extra on the artist’s web site and Instagram.
#Belgium
#Ivan Argote
#public artwork
#sculpture
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