Núria Güell

Through installation, writing, performance, and video, Nuria Güell rethinks the ethics practiced by the large institutions that govern our society and suggests alternative methodologies. She doesn’t shy away from difficult ethical issues regarding the exposure or use of vulnerable social positions in her work. Güell is rather direct in her recognition that the art work can only “…briefly alter the relation between dominators and those dominated, something akin to exercising a symbolic counterviolence on the public…”

For MDE15 Güell is focusing on one of the most troubling issues she encountered during her research in Medellin: child prostitution – a contemporary form of slavery a substantial part of the flourishing sex tourist industry of Medellin. By using the symbolical power of an art institution, Güell exposes the problem and confronts the social acceptance of such phenomenon. Through artifacts and performance the work reveals the deep structural nature of the phenomenon, pointing to the fact that all of us, politicians, cultural workers and citizens, through our actions or non-actions, are responsible for and participants in this crime.

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