Maurizio Cattelan’s installation exhibited in an art center in Miami provokes confusion, rejection, corrosive criticism and laughter in many.
There is an exhibition taking place in the Miami Comedian and one of its artists presents a banana stuck to a wall with a tape. Maurizio Cattelan and its installation causes confusion, rejection, corrosive criticism, laughter but in no way indifference in many: It is as if it were a pure exteriority, apparently the other extreme of introspection.
We wonder if the banana, from its phallic symbology, or as food, as a perishable thing that rots and has to be renewed every week, can be considered a work of art.
The banana perhaps it challenges us with its brazen presence, allowing us to reflect on the evolutions that Art and Psychoanalysis have been having, from Dali’s nightmares, Duchamp’s installations, Buñuel’s “The Andalusian Dog,” Hitchcock’s “The Birds” to other types of nightmares, those of hunger perhaps, those of social exclusion, or Will it be those of inequality?
Banana on the wall by Maurizio Cattelan
Courtesy Wired
We will have reached that future that the master Freud announced where we can no longer focus, nor put the flashlight solely on the individual, but on his interrelation with his environment, in that constant interplay that has been taking place since the 20th century. through group psychoanalysis, the family group, the couple, the binomial, the study of accidents and catastrophes.
And perhaps from this perspective we can see the wall again, although in a different way, and the banana from other vertices. Perspectives that would also encompass the different meanings of a banana that cries out with its stripped presence. Perhaps it shows us that great ideals are beginning to give way to other urgencies, to other legacies, evanescent and unpredictable, where the wound of exclusion, of oblivion is exhibited as a cry but not as defeat.
We can see the banana attached to a wall which also tells us that we can consider it as a symbol of the Latin American continent and its relationship with the always despised banana countries, which in the 19th century were subjected to various forms of corruption and exploitation. Linked to the narrowness, stuck to the wall of what could be seen as the strong economic domination exercised in Central America until the end of the 20th century.
Banana on the wall by Maurizio Cattelan
Courtesy Vanity Fair
So we ask ourselves again, can that banana stuck on a wall lead us to reflect on the Latin American crisis, as a revolutionary bet that has to be renewed every week when it rots?. That needs to be replicated and multiplied, just as many artists did in their works, to which they added a banana with a tape of glue as a symbol of an era.
NWe ask you if it could not be also a scar on the wall that tells us of a wound that continues to bleed, a complaint that insists and demands to be heard even if it is through mockery, rejection and satire about the art, life and current society. Because let us not forget that the work of art is significant if it is fed by the sedimentation of the forces of a specific time and culture that involves the individual and society. Plot that weaves an endless story between Art and Psychoanalysis like a mirror that holds subjectivity and human becoming and establishes a bridge that goes from the irreducible individual to the shore of the similar through all centuries, through all cultures.
Psychoanalyst. T itular in didactic function of the Argentine Psychoanalytic Association. Plastic Artist and Writer. Director of the Department of Psychoanalysis and Society of the Argentine Psychoanalytic Association.
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