Anna Baumgart, Acrylic resin, 2005
Polish artist Anna Baumgart creates sculptures and videos in search of the reality of identity, often with a feminist perspective. She analyses the past and denounces social conditions where injustice was accepted out of habit. Different facets of forms of oppression are the common thread in her oeuvre, in context of war but also from cultural aspects.
‘Warrior’ is a sculpture that critically represents the reality in the US Guantanamo prison. It is based on the attached photograph of a prisoner forced to stand undressed and bent over on 2 cardboard boxes in front of his cell. The sculpture has an aggressive rat’s head towards the back, it shows that social reintegration after such an experience never works out. Emphasising an inhuman environment, the artist pushes the boundary of a reality with the presentation of an existing situation.
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