Diversionismo Ideológico

Last month, Galería Nuble opened Diversionismo Ideologico (Ideological Derailment) exhibition in Santander, Spain. Curated by Cuban Wendy Navarro, the show tackles a concept created in Cuba in the 1970s. Ideological diversionism was everything that “confused” the people or distracted their attention from the Revolution’s objectives or interests. “If your hair was long, if your pants were too tight, if you read foreign magazines, listened to rock music or tuned in foreign radio stations”, Navarro writes on Galería Nuble’s website, “you could be accused of “ideological diversionism”.

The show is made up of Cuban artists Lázaro Saavedra and Adrián Melis, Colombian Milena Bonilla, the collective of Spanish art Democracia, and Mexican Pedro Reyes.

(…) Just as Navarro points out on his essay, “the artistic form is not prearranged in these artworks. Diverse, multifaceted, ‘diversionist’ are not defined by a mean, language or constructive formulation as such, (exploring different media from installations, video to electronic communication), but by the expressive freedom generated by such ideas”. These works “become an assault to the order of things. Actions, strategies and efforts facing the frontiers of visual art, institutional barriers, mechanisms of control, censure or cultural and ideological conformism.”

Diversionismo ideológico will be showcased at Galería Nuble through September 7.

Source: Cuban Art News