• Ibon Aranberri, Ethnics, 1998, sculpture, dimensions variable
  Courtesy La Gaia Collection, Busca
  

Ibon Aranberri is interested in decoding the system of common accepted images, values and preconceptions set in place in society – a system that often leads to paranoia. His work is not directly political, but looks at ‘political art’ and its systems of representation. Ethnics (1998) is a table with materials and objects on it, ranging from a Basque shepherd’s milk carton to pieces of rubber – a still life that suggests the way the police display evidence of bomb-making after a raid on a terrorist cell. The work evokes the visual codes used to frame ‘terrorism’ in the media, using the arrangements made by the police to show evidence of illegal activity. It reflects upon how easy it seems to be to create ‘evidence’. Every piece on the table has – it might seem to the viewer – in the nick of time been prevented from entering into a dangerous relation – to form a bomb.

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