Power Structure

Power Structure is a collective exhibition that questions conceptual patterns established by cultural mechanisms set by historical discourses. This exhibition explores and evidences different forms of control used to maintain the dominant order. Through the work of three artists and a collective, Power Structure attempts to resolve the paradigms hidden behind the tentacles of the institutions that sustain and perpetuate colonial history. The Museum, the academia, the state and geography, for example, are idealized concepts constructed with the objective of maintaining the domination apparatuses in place that are convenient to the colonial, patriarchal and antiecological thinking that seems to have no way out. However, from the work of Ana María Millán, the duo Mazenett Quiroga, Cristóbal Gracia and Otto Berchem, these figures of training and control are put in evidence. From this perspective, this exhibition seeks to understand the complexities in such institutions (as well as family, romantic affairs or tourism) and how they have been cultivated from totalitarian fictions. Exploring symbols collectively assumed from popular culture or everyday life, Power Structure creates a new political vocabulary, in which the figure of the cinematic alien, archaeological objects, and everyday utensils such as the broom, or the video game, can be reorganized to assume a new role as decoders of the imposed system.