us vs us

Everybody agrees on this point: this end of the US presidential campaign seems more than ever to be leaving American society in pieces. Divided, polarised, and fractured, it is gradually tilting towards the Un-united States of America. In our European rear-view mirrors, the America that saved us 80 years ago is now offering us a headlong plunge into ideas, fears, and beliefs that are dangerously similar to those from which they freed us. In this logic, the made-in-the-USA model, which has never ceased to influence us, is now asking us questions about our own trajectory and the extremist impulses that threaten us. The political, military, and economic future that the Americans have set for themselves also confronts us with the imperative need to free ourselves from them. With the outcome of the election uncertain, eight artists have agreed to present work linked to the United States of yesterday or today, questioning in order and above all in disorder its complex iconography where (geo)politics, religion, violence, and conspiracy mingle, all mixed with references to local pop culture.