documenta fifteen: Atis Rezistans | Ghetto Biennale, Ghetto Gucci, Performance, St. Kunigundis, Kassel, June 17, 2022, photo: Frank Sperling.
Visions, Dreams and Goals of Life
By WAC | 4 OCT 2022
In his artistic work, Atis Rezistans explores the Creole concept of konbit (a traditional form of collective labour), the global class politics in art, the history of the Haitian revolution and Voodoo.
documenta fifteen: Atis Rezistans | Ghetto Biennale, ANN PASE’L PASE, MACHE NAP MACHE, St. Kunigundis, Kassel, Junio 17, 2022, photo: Frank Sperling.
Ghetto Gucci is the performance that this community of artists based in Port-au-Prince (Haiti) has realised in different cities around the world. Also in the Roman Catholic church of St. Kunigundis, among a group of sculptures produced by themselves, in the framework of documenta fifteen.
documenta fifteen: Atis Rezistans | Ghetto Biennale, Ghetto Gucci, Performance, St. Kunigundis, Kassel, June 17, 2022, photo: Frank Sperling.
They invite the audience to reflect on the role of visions, dreams and goals in our lives. Faced with the flow of images, news and slogans —which dictate what to think or how to act— which field could offer other perspectives? They are clear: art. Because through artistic practice, it is possible to engage with one's own body as well as to discover the body of the other, and in doing so, to help each other. Ghetto Gucci thus inspires artists and audiences to learn from each other, from the past and to reflect on what kind of future we can imagine individually and collectively.
documenta fifteen: Atis Rezistans | Ghetto Biennale, ANN PASE’L PASE, MACHE NAP MACHE, St. Kunigundis, Kassel, June 17, 2022, foto: Frank Sperling.