Yael Bartana
Patriarchy is History, 2019
Neon
162 x 155 cm
63.7 x 61 inches
63.7 x 61 inches
Edition of 3
YBARTANA-.24-0026
The neon work Patriarchy is History is composed of a simple declaration in present tense, spread on two by two meters and shines in bright blue Following Bartana’s characterizing practice...
The neon work Patriarchy is History is composed of a simple declaration in present tense, spread on two by two meters and shines in bright blue Following Bartana’s characterizing practice of “pre-enactments” and political imagination, the neon work confronts the public with a factual statement that belongs to a potential future or an alternative present. Yet at the same time it resonates with an already ongoing, real and not imaginary global movement that promotes and activates the reevaluation of predominant social structures. Doing so, the work acts as a symbolically combative agent in the struggle against the mechanisms that shaped the history of our world.
Exhibitions
Witch Hunt, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, USA, 2021