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29/11/2015

Working class hands

In almost every art show I went lately I saw imagery of working hands: At the 2015 Venice Biƫnnale, this years Rijksakademie open weekend and at the current show at SMBA of Antony Pittas.

My concern is not only that my own fascination for hands at work is not so original anymore, but the fact that all the hands I see seem to be working class hands, estheticized for an artist's concept.

I am worried that there is a distance growing between the hands on the screens, the ones that made the video and the people that are buying them, which I presume are not covered in callus.

video fragment Antonnis Pittas





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