Jose Yisa

Lives and works in Santiago, Chile

Artist statement

Artist's statement. My work develops an investigation and production that relates forms of power and control with ideas such as identity, territory or migration, exploring how these relations of friction and force have the capacity to define affective, social and political constructions on both an intimate and economic level, showing themselves as anthropological representations of a social system currently under definition. Symbolically speaking, I seek through the artistic field to give origin and weight to a chain between acts, forms, signs and images, reconfiguring this chain in a visual production that accounts for the latent processes of the particular themes addressed by each investigation. Thus developing pieces that present a social vein linked to the economic systems and the relations between them, analysing the flaws, the precariousness and the fragile balance of power existing in labour relations and the hierarchical imposition of powers of domination in the framework of neo-colonial capitalism and the normalised hegemonic impositions. Declaración del artista. Mi trabajo desarrolla una investigación y producción que pone en relación formas de poder y control con ideas como identidad, territorio o migración, explorando como estas relaciones de fricción y fuerza presentan capacidades para definir construcciones afectivas, sociales y políticas tanto en un plano íntimo como económico, mostrándose como representaciones antropológicas de un sistema social actualmente...

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