POPPOSITIONS Brussels | Five artists to open your eyes

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Denouncing socio-economic inequalities, and the feeling of indifference they can provoke, on a contemporary art fair booth could seem incongruous – and should make you feel uneasy.

 

But forbidding ourselves from tackling these topics would surely signal giving up the fight. If we think about it, is contemporary art’s audience actually holding all the cards in this situation of inequality?

 

At POPPOSITIONS, the 26 participants – galleries, artist initiatives, project spaces, etc. – are invited to work on the theme of “acknowledging one’s privileges towards understanding the struggles of others, and giving space to social bodies that have been silenced, unacknowledged and underrepresented”.