Dissonance and Politics: Video Art at Instituto Cervantes Rome

The Instituto Cervantes in Rome, located in Piazza Navona within the IILA space shared with the Spanish Embassy and the Academy of Spain, resumes its activities with the exhibition 'La emancipacion de la disonancia' curated by Adonay Bermúdez. The show explores the relationship between music and image through video art, focusing on dissonance as a break from traditional musical forms. Works by international artists address urgent political themes: Federico Solmi's animated 'A Song of Tyranny' depicts a dictator-led military parade; Saskia Calderón's 'Requiem Huao' mourns the destruction of the Huaorani people in the Amazon; Diego Lama's 'The Act' shows white powder falling in the Congress chamber, symbolizing drug-related corruption; Joaquín Segura presents a music box featuring a former ETA leader dancing to a melancholic tune; María Cañas' video features an out-of-tune musician playing to a herd of bulls, critiquing machismo and mass manipulation; and Regina José Galindo stages a choral performance shouting 'CULPABLE!' against former Guatemalan dictator Efraín Ríos Montt. The exhibition runs at the Instituto Cervantes in Rome.