"The point is to make people hate and fear each other and look out only for themselves," in this "land of inequality" that we have to inhabit today... "It's going to be an extremely ugly society." Words with which the prestigious American thinker and linguist, Noam Chomsky explains the concept of INEQUALITY in his documentary "Requiem for an American Dream." Neoliberalism, as a political form that defines the economic paradigm of our time, is a set of economic categories that rejects every concept and idea outside its conceptual scheme. This neoliberal thinking of capitalism contradicts every fundamental postulate of democracy and human rights, given its predatory and violent character organized for the benefit of capital and the profits of just a few.As Joseph Stiglitz, Nobel Prize-winning economist in 2001, says in his book "The Price of Inequality" (2012), 1% of the population has what 99% needs. This obvious fact that wealth is accumulating in a few, in the long run, is an aggression to democracy or what Chomsky would say, is the end of it. Inequality becomes a feature that currently illustrates and defines most of our societies. In this series under the title “WOUNDS” I make a reflection about this signs of violence in these situations of inequality, both politically, socially and economically, during this complicated time in which we live. Inequality caused by the aggression of the most privileged sector to the most disadvantaged sectors. Any kind of inequality is the result of an aggression, understood as a violent action, in an exercise of strength and power. Thus, in a clearly metaphorical way, I use the image of a woman who has been or is being attacked, as a symbol of the most disadvantaged masses. If one has suffered the absolute injustice, throughout centuries of humanity, it has been the feminine gender. A dramatic reality that, despite the undoubted advances in the last decades, situates the woman in a position of inferiority and therefore, in a position of dependence in economic, social, cultural and emotional levels.On the other hand, something that always I am interested in my work is transferring the concept of the idea that I am communicating to the form of representation itself. In this way, I try to carry this type of abuse or aggression to which I refer, to the way of painting itself. In that sense, once the painting is done, I attack and destroy it, using the same violence with which the oppressor acts on the oppressed. Throwing thinner, scratching the painting or removing the paint itself from the surface, I try to manifest and provoke to the spectator this kind of aggression that I am referring to. At the same time, in a metaphorical way, instead of using a conventional canvas (delicate and light), I use a damaged wall, hard and heavy, as a symbol of a stable structure that constant aggressions have ended up destroying it.
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