David Palacios, Appendix D: Economic Cost Of Violence By Country, detail, Eva Maria Ocherbauer 2017.
Born Havana, Cuba (1967), lives and works between London, United Kingdom and Harare, Zimbabwe
APPENDIX D: ECONOMIC COST OF VIOLENCE BY COUNTRY 2017
installation with tables, paper
Courtesy of the artist
This installation was conceived for the 1st Lagos Biennial to be held between the months of October and November 2017 in the city of Lagos, Nigeria.
This project raises a parallel and contradictory relationship between the aesthetics of the work of art and its social content, the latter obtained from the artist’s first encounter with the original source. In this sense, the work envelops us in a veil of aesthetic proposal, visibly decorative, as well as a mechanism of material reproduction of information, like a machine that reproduces information in matrix format on violence and its cost.
The installation, Living on the Edge, like the title of the Biennial, forces us to live on the frontier between our passive condition as a spectator of works of art and our condition as social subjects, understood and represented in numbers, figures and data of the thematic work of art.
APPENDIX D: ECONOMIC COST OF VIOLENCE BY COUNTRY contains 70 pieces in total to make up the entire work, 70 pieces = 70 countries.
The installation, which contains tables available to the public so they may read the pages of the related report and associated devices, aims to assist the audience in understanding the information in the art in a literal and direct way.
